You're right... I haven't a clue.

That's because the coho gillnet season is part of a very convoluted matrix based on a sliding-scale ESA impact predicated on the performance of the Clack and Sandy wild runs, the only 2 functioning wild coho populations left in the entire lower CR.

The gillnets have never had to fish "selectively" for coho as a certain amount of wild exploitation is intentionally allowed in the matrix, which varies widely from year to year.

That said, they are charged one dead fish for every wild coho encountered.

Would seine gear change that? Where and when most of the fish are caught (bright fish in transition water, scales sill loose) the handling mortality on coho is going to be pretty high, even when that fish hasn't been ensnared in gillnet mesh.