Originally Posted By: Lead Bouncer

Just remember, the state tried to increase the ESA limit to four or six percent. That would have changed the math.


With regards to spring chinook, you are mistaken.

The proposed tripling of incidental ESA impacts was on wild, lower river steelhead, in order to allow the gillnetters to kill more hatchery springers in the lower river.

Those below-Bonneville steelhead impacts are within OR/WA control. Once you talk about spring chinook destined for above Bonneville, then the Tribes are a full partner and the states will not be doing ANYTHING unilaterally, like "tripling the impacts".

That particular fight was in the pre-CCA days and the attempt was soundly trounced by a broad, unruly coalition of unwashed sportsfishers.
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