Originally Posted By: freespool

Changing the harvest method for commercials under the present allocation process will completely screw sport fishing.


a good example is last years coho on the lower columbia, the non-tribal gillnetters had around 4.17 percent esa take and sports had around 3.33, the gillnetters were modeled to catch about 30k "any" coho and sports were modeled to catch about 100k "hatchery coho", any guesses as to how many "hatchery" coho the gillnetters could catch if they had a lower release mortality rate with the new methods than sports do ??