It can be, but its a hatchery allocation fight, which cca wont do, so its up to others. Only allocation fight they care about is to reduce the commercial side of the impacts.

I heard from Goose on the other site that some hatchery fish are being moved to safe areas on the wa side, and Im not sure if he mentioned the cowlitz in particular. If they are pre-allocating out of the hatchery and dedicating it, to YB or other safe areas, its a shell game in the allocation game. Not only do sports get shorted, the tribes will eventually hollar about that allocation, as will the upriver sports.

SBD The colville tribe has already tested seine nets for two years and will be switching over, hopefully this year. The seine nets will level the playing field again between the tribe and non tribal. Considering the extra allocation they will get for the next three years, I doubt the safe areas, will continue to get a free ride, when selective harvest will acomplish the same reduction in impacts.

One other thing I wanted to throw out about the returns. Seems like everyone jumps for joy on the jack counts. I talked a guide friend, who spoke with the department about some Jacks that were up river. Im not sure, but these might have been jacks they caught and might have had tags in them. If that doesnt add up in anyones logic, I will call him and verify it. Anyway, they werent jacks, they were small mature fish. It makes me wonder if using the jack count is relied upon to predict the next years adult run. I know you guys know, but I havent followed that in detail. I dont fish it.