Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
I think Eyefish's gut feeling is too high based on my personal experience using both purse seines and gillnets to capture bright salmon for radio tagging. We never experienced 80% mortality, but never got radio tag signals from anywhere from 25 to 35% of fish captured in salt water bay or tidewater river areas.


Sg

I'd say that magnitude of loss is at least in the same ballpark seen by ADFG in their stock assessment projects.

On the Kenai River, the coho research projects killed 40% of the coho handled in tidewater.... 4 out of 10 dead just by touching them, without any associated hooking event and the certainty of added stress that goes along with it.
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