Rivrguy,

Well, you got me pegged at astoundingly ignorant. I'm the dummy who proposed letting the small projected surplus of chum salmon hit the gravel, and that seemed to be the general tenor of the meeting. Imagine my surprise when the gillnet season was published.

My interest in GH is predicated on the premise that the co-managers actually intend to have enough wild fish escape to spawn and maintain natural production. I mean, they even have escapement goals.

I continue to be amazed that WDFW is like totally separate agencies in different regions. In Region 4 if the cowboys had taken more than the available chum allocation their coho season would be over. Different rules apply in GH, where conservation appears to be a coincidental by-product of unintended under-harvest.

Thanks for the heads up.

Sg