Originally Posted By: freespool
Originally Posted By: stlhdr1
Originally Posted By: freespool
They don't have to negotiate the dam maze, yet their populations are low, and this is spite of no harvest.


How can you sit there and say that....

The Lewis River Brights have held a solid population exceeding escapement of 6600 for 12 out of the last 14 years... Expected return for this year is around 12,000 and yet we still don't have an in river opportunity to harvest them...

Odd really...

Keith cry


LCR wild steelhead have not been harvested for over two decades, yet populations hover in the threatened category.
Willamette wild spring chinook haven't been harvested for over two decades, yet they remain ESA listed.
Same can be said about Clackamas wild coho, decades of no harvest, yet populations haven't rebounded.


OK, so they haven't been harvested by sport anglers... But Clackamas Coho sure have been pounded by the gillnets... LCR Wild steelhead have been hammered by gillnets and tanglenets as well as the Willamette spring chinook...

Over and above their challenging journey home through the net gauntlets then they're C n R'd by sport anglers.... If these fish weren't handled, would they recover?

Keith
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