Originally Posted By: Lead Bouncer
Keith,

You dont have tribal harvest on steelhead on most of those rivers. Dont tell me its not harvest. I m not letting the dams off the hook either.


Laugh all you want...

We don't have tribal harvest on the rivers I speak of for steelhead or salmon. We don't have any harvest except the incidental kill with the nets and as I stated earlier, that's not much.

The Lewis River Bright's (Fall fish) have withstood extreme harvest through the 90's and early 2000's. They missed escapement for one year and it has been shut down since. Escapement is set at 6600 fish, this years return was predicted at 12,000. 2009's run was predicted at roughly 10,000 and the run came in right about that... Plenty of room for harvest, but groups stand in the way of letting us at those fish.

Again, plenty of harvest on these fish and I mean plenty over the years. We've more than took our share as well as the netters in the LCR. But the run is still healthy. Again, no HATCHERY fish in that system... Interesting isn't it?

Keith
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