Tried to look up that thread on the main board and even any discussion in old PM's.... no dice.

Here is what I recall from memory and some old notes. The extra "chum" days were made possible by freeing up add'l chinook impacts. These were made available by lowballing the C&R chinook mortality resulting from the in-river rec fishery for coho.

In 2010, the FW rec fishery cost about 350 chinook impacts.

In 2011, the same fishery (less two weeks above Porter to lay off spawning spring chinook) cost us only 180 chinook impacts.

(In contrast, the model charged the bay fishery 74 C&R impacts in 2010 and 120 impacts in 2011. an increase, not a decrease)

The net effect was a REDUCTION in rec chinook impact of roughly 125 chinook. These were allocated to the 2A/2D fishery to buy them an extra day for coho and two days for chum.

This is where we as a group have to hold WDFW responsible to accurately account for every dead wild Chehalis-origin chinook. We've got 2935 of them to spend.... and rest assured they WILL be spent at NOF. Every paper fish left on the table after funding purposeful retention by recs and purposeful retention by the 2C gillnets....

WILL BE SPENT AS IMPACT TO FUEL THE 2A/2D GILLNETTING FOR COHO