Boater said;
Originally Posted By: boater
agree but they go in, reach there esa take and catch a few fish and they are done, the new way of thinking is to replace them with a method that has a lower release mortality rate so they can catch more hatchery fish while killing the same amount of wild fish,
and I snipped some out.

Good point. From the discussions I personally know of the intent was to replace the gill net harvest method with a method with a lower release mortality rate so more wild fish would go to spawning land. That was the stated intent.

The hatchery/wild catch rate, ESA, allotment, mark percentages, etc., still makes my head spin, but I'm working on it.

So, how do we allow more wild fish to escape while catching the hatchery fish?

FWIW, some disclosure: sometimes, like now, I think if I were KING, I would just remove all dams, and send out the King's men to enforce No fishing for, say, 10 or 20 years. Oh, and no logging within 300 yards of the river. Something like that. Oh , and no nets on the seas. The genetics and habitat would sort out a lot and the fish wouldn't be able to tell who was native and who was hatchery.
But none of us are King, and there would probably be unintended consequences anyway. smile

So here we are.