Originally Posted By: eyeFISH
I understand the rationale behind your argument and support it completely. As has been posted, before a single WDFW fishery deploys any gear (hooks or nets), the paper allocation of chinook crossing the bar at Westport is already 58% commercial.


There seems to be a bit of slight of hand here. The two tribal commercial fisheries are credited with an allocation of 58% of the Chinook harvest. In the negotiated final model the QIN were expected to harvest 65.4% of the Chinook and the Chehalis tribe 2.7% for a total of 68.1%. It still seems to me that the tribal commercial fishery should be considered as part of the overall commercial industry. How much is enough for commercial harvest?

If elimination of the NT commercial industry is totally unrealistic then I agree that the next best option is live capture selective gear for the NT commercial allocation.