LeadBouncer, their "QUOTA" is not how many hatchery fish they catch...it's how many wild fish they kill while doing it.

For the 101st time, that's why this will not put one single additional wild spring Chinook on the spawning grounds...they will fish until they kill their share of the wild ESA springers, just like we will, and the tribes will.

How is such a fundamental tenet of how LCR fisheries are crafted, in spite of it being spelled out here by many folks, repeatedly, so easily misunderstood, or ignored?

salmon bake, we're not talking about steelhead, as we already established back when you started in on this thread.

If we were talking about steelhead, then this will definitely help.

However, neither the commercial industry, nor WDFW...nor the CCA...is making that argument.

The CCA is saying this will be great for wild salmon that will be released, and that more will spawn and fishing will be so much better...and on those counts, they couldn't be more wrong, as evidenced by LB's continued failure to grasp how LCR fisheries are crafted.

WDFW isn't even bothering with any of that drivel...they just say it like it is...this is intended to allow the commercial fishermen access to many more hatchery fish while burning through their ESA impact allocations.

If there were anything at all useful about this for the salmon, either the ESA salmon or the sportfishing, then I could understand where the CCA is coming from, even were it a baby step...the problem is that this program will not do any of the things that the CCA thinks it will, and therefore is not only not a "baby step", it's no step at all, except backwards.

Fish on...

Todd