Originally Posted By: eyeFISH
[quote=eyeFISH]
Everyone should be prepared for little or no chinook-directed fisheries.

The immediate past 5 Chehalis escapements from 2008 forward fell short of goal 4 times.


Fisheries SHALL be managed for a 5% impact on the NT side. Comm share of the state fishery shall be 2% and rec share will be 98%…. and those fish shall be used to gain access to harvestable coho.


Just so that everyone understands exactly what Commissioner Schmitten said in his final piece on allocation… he stated the comm share would be 0.8%.

That 0.8% is in the context of the following breakout.

50% treaty share…. 100% of which goes to the QIN.

The remaining 50% is the NON-treaty (NT) share. By historic agreement, 16.5% of that half goes to NT tribal share (Chehalis) and 83.5% goes to the state share. Said another way the Chehalis tribe gets 8.25% vs the state's 41.75% vs QIN's 50% to get back to the original 100% of the harvestable fish.

The state's 41.75% share of total harvestable is now proposed to be allocated 0.8% comm and 39.95% rec. In other words, the non-tribal state share of harvestable chinook shall be managed for a roughly 2:98 split.

That folks, is what the commission voted to approve on Saturday.
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