Originally Posted By: salmon bake


Getting the nets off the river will not end up giving more allocation to commercials.



they dont need anymore of the esa take allocation to get to keep more hatchery fish in the spring chinook fishery after they go to a more selective method.

to kinda change the subject, this year sports failed to catch about 20k hatchery coho in the ocean and about 50k hatchery coho at buoy 10 and the esa that was not used by sports was givin to the LCR gillnetters and they turned those 70k hatchery coho into about 15k of any coho, if the gillnetters had already changed to a selective method with a release mortality rate equal to sports what would be the reason why the new-fad commercials couldnt have caught and kept those 70k hatchery coho in the columbia and do you think that would effect sportfishing ?, and, the same amount of esa listed coho would be killed.