Originally Posted By: Rivrguy
It is in my life time that the mixed stock ocean sport & commercial fisheries really developed and frankly they have had the most detrimental impact of any harvest method utilized in the PNW.


Amen brother, Amen.

We go thru the most convoluted, unreliable, expensive-as-hell forecast and management strategies to accommodate "outside" mixed stock fisheries.

We would do ourselves and the fish a HUGE favor by transitioning back to terminal fisheries where the principal local stakeholders harvest their own fish. Each terminal fishery region lives and dies by its own harvest and conservation strategies... they reap exactly what they sow at the local level.

They would also be much more invested in conservation measures if they knew that the benefits would NOT be squandered to fish boxes in Canada and Alaska.

Local ownership and accountability of the resource based on stream of origin. It's the only way these problems will go away.

Now if we could just get past the roadblocks erected by the global scale industrial commercial interests that dominate Pacific salmon fisheries.
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