Stlhdr -
No sure why it is so hard for folks to grasp the basic concept of Columbia River Spring Chinook management. It is all about the wild fish ESA impacts. Those allowable imapcts deteremine the quota. It makes no difference whether that quota is caught in 10 days or 50 days it will result in the same number of dead wild fish.

If you want to limit the wild fish impacts then folks need to stop fishing in that mix stock main river fishery and wait until the hatchery and wild fish sort themselves out (at least somewaht). Of course that would mean no lower river fishery at all and terminal fisheries mostly tributaries.

Or the managers could do as often is suggested for the commercial and tribal fisheries and just dip the hatchery fish out of the fish ladders and hand them out to waiting "anglers".

Have wonder how many of the Columbia River spring Chinook fishers would vote for either of those approachs? Could remove more hatchery fish and actual kill fewer wild fish.

Something to ponder!
Curt