Originally Posted By: OntheColumbia
Originally Posted By: Doctor Rick
....If, BIG IF, ESA impacts could be changed and if, .....

Not sure why I keep stepping in but we have to figure this out or leave to the nextgen.


Dr.Rick, I don't see any changes to the 2% allowable ESA impact on upriver spring chinook, that sports and gillnetters share, happening under any reality-based scenario.

It's a lot more straight forward, and beneficial to all to get those stocks recovered, and then de-listed. ESA impacts go away, and then we're left with the constraint of catch-balancing with the Tribes -- which actually has more flexibility. Recovery is really the key to expanding CR fishing. And that is what a lot of people are working on.


Recovering what? Hatchery stocks that are now considered wild?

What stocks are true native stocks that don't or didn't have hatchery supplementation?

Keith
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