Todd, do the tribes not get to harvest wild surplus fish, fish over escapement?.
They do, and I am saying take a portion of what would be allocated to them, for Broodstock production, this in turn would also cut down the net days they fish for those fish, and possible allow more even to pass.
No wild fish would be lost or wasted, they would just not end up in nets. Right now they are wasted, so let's put them to work.
This an entirely different question than the biological one, and comes with it's own set of serious problems...not the first of which is that there is no way the tribe is giving up any of its fish for us to have a broodstock program, that will be done with our half of the harvestable surplus.
Let's pretend for a minute, however, that for some reason the tribes decided to give up their harvest allocation for a broodstock program...when that program starts returning fish, who do you think will want half of them?
What else do you think they will be netting up while they are netting their half of them?
The tribes will want to harvest half of them, and they'll be netting up wild fish at the same time...wild fish which are now diminished in number thanks to killing a bunch of them to make hatchery fish.
Both the biology and the management issues continue to tell me that it's a folly to have broodstock programs.
Fish on...
Todd
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