Some of these Chums could be targeted further out in the salt, but the tribes and local NI netting has been closed, and is supposed to be closed this year too.

They have over estimated the return on this run for the last 7 years, this year they say it will be down.


Last year they said there would be 10,000 extra paper fish, Without looking at my notes I think they said 37 to 38,000 would return and 28,000 were needed for escapement. They said it could be opened because the tribes possibly wanted their 5,000 share, which meant sportsman could have 5,000 also. I asked them to keep it closed for both.

It stayed closed for both and maybe around 12,000 came back.