Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
Unless the preseason runsize forecasts chum well above the escapement goal, there should be no season, recreational or commercial. If there are surplus chum, and I have no idea if there are, I think the sport catch limit could be 10 chum per day, and it wouldn't have a measurable effect on the escapement. How many chums are sport fishermen going to actually keep over the season? 1,000? 2,000? Those figures are much smaller than the error bounds of the runsize estimate. What I'm suggesting is that the sport catch of chum salmon is probably irrelevant to chum conservation needs. Tell me I'm wrong.

Sg


I am going to disagree with you...nobody should be killing any of these until there is proof that the run size is healthy and booming...or be camped out on their spawning beds rippin corkies and yarn through their head, face, fins, and guts.


Edited by Rotten Chum (04/30/12 11:30 PM)
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