Originally Posted By: StinkingWaters
Although as I stated before I am not specifically talking about the LCR situation.

Are there not other fisheries that are regulated by hatchery harvest quotas that could stand to benefit from from non-treaty commercials using selective gear types?

I have no idea what limits the commercial fleet in say,..... the Chehalis. Would this type of gear use stand to benefit that watershed?


SW,

There might be, but I'm not coming up with much off the top of my head. If there is a case where wild chinook or coho are co-mingled with far more abundant hatchery salmon of those species, then yes. But in the cases that I can think of where that usually occurs, the commercial harvest is by treaty fisheries, which so far seem resistant to selective harvest methods.

As for Gray's Harbor/Chehalis, I don't know what limits the commercial fleet (including treaty), because it doesn't seem to be the availability of surplus production, this year being the slight exception.

Sg