Originally Posted By: cohoangler
FF - Good thoughts. Your argument points out the value of terminal fisheries in freshwater, as opposed to open ocean fisheries. When harvest occurs close to the natal stream, there is much better control over how many are harvested, and how many are allowed on the spawning grounds. Conversely, open ocean harvest results in taking fish that may be on the brink of extinction, but nobody will know since those fish cannot be identified by stock when they're in the ocean. Closing all ocean fisheries for salmon would solve this problem.

Whether that is a realistic outcome is a different question......



What I've been saying for years. Agree 100%.

Not to mention the basins that do the habitat work, protect wild stocks and raise fish would reap the benefits of their work directly………..not a distant fishery hundreds of miles north of us up the coast (Canada/Alaska) snaring 75-90% of some runs (Chehalis River anyone?).

I really struggle with these interception rates by our neighbors to the north. Begs the question of why do the work and commit millions, if not billions, of dollars to conservation if we only get the crumbs?