Originally Posted By: Smalma
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As Aunty and others have pointed out many times currently on the Columbia lower River spring Chinook fishery the combined sport and commercial fisheries are catching nearly all they fish they are allowed. There are obligations (Tribal and other up river fisheries) to insure that adequate numbers of fish (hatchery and wild) are passed upstream. In 2008 those upstream obligations were not met and just barely so in 2009



The fleet is nowhere near that efficient (Com/sport combined).

The only reason it happens is because the preseason forecasts are so far off. Oh the perils of designing a season based strictly on paper fish!
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