Originally Posted By: cohoangler
Good thoughts Doc, but I would offer a different perspective.



This last step is very important. At some point in the process, fish managers MUST know how many of the returning adults are coming from the hatchery and how many are being produced in the watershed. Too often, this step is not taken. Perhaps because some folks don't want to know. As long as the adults are showing up in harvestable numbers, they're happy.



CohoAngler, good post......I have questioned the lack of "record keeping" by the commercial fishing fleet. In Region 6, they do a estimate,.....put a WDFW bio on a NT gill net boat, count the number of hatchery/wild fish......then multiply those numbers by the total gill net boat fishing that day/tide. A number is reached, might be low, high, could it be right on???? don't think so. Is there a chance that wild fish are "over netted", I think so.......Estimate is not the way to count fish.......NT gill netter or fish buyer, should be held accountable......If you can't do the job, right, then get out of that livelihood.


Edited by DrifterWA (10/30/12 03:13 PM)
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