Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
OTC,


This is not a conservation issue. It is an allocation issue. NMFS has determined that it is OK to harvest up to 15% of wild CR spring chinook. You can bet the states and tribes will do everything in their power to harvest them. No party with authority is going to try to put any part of those 15% wild chinook on the spawning grounds. They are available for incidental mortality while fishing for the much greater number of hatchery chinook. The only question regarding this issue is who is going to "take" those 15% wild chinook, treaty tribes get 13%, with non-treaty commercial and sport splitting the remaining 2%.


Sg


Here's the real deal... No matter how you cut it when NMFS determined that 15% of Wild CR Springers could be harvested they willingly knew that there's not near that % of actual true wilds or "natives" being handled. If and when they actually regulate and mandate "ALL" hatcheries clip their hatchery spring chinook then we'll truly understand the % of natives we are handling. It's a double edge sword though, if we ever get to the point of actually knowing what our true Native population is we're doomed as sportsman.

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