Posted this in another thread but thought it would help here. As SB posted the WDFW numbers do not include the NT net mortality. As they apply a 45% mortality and this was one drift by one boat out of the 13 we observed, well you do the math. If they do say 10 drifts in the 12 hrs and encountered the same that would be 1300 Chum released and at 45% it is 585 dead on the bottom. Chinook the same process would get you 117 Chinook as mortality. Add up the total NT net time and the number of Chinook & Chum sacrificed in the commercial harvest of Coho is rather large.



Went down and took about 3 hours to video the NT nets in action. They were catching fish to be sure so here is what we got by going right with one boat who did a SHORT drift at the PGH.

9 Coho retained. Hard to get who is a Chum or Coho but they keep Coho so simple enough.

10 Chum back in the water of which 3 or 4 were seriously dead.

2 Chinook overboard and went straight from the net to the water without going into the recovery boxes.