Originally Posted By: tugalodan
I think I understand, it's all about the money it's not about the fish. Seems to me one month of no netting isn't unreasonable. If it is then why not one or two days a week for the season, are crabs more important than the salmon ?


It's completely unreasonable. One month of no fishing means nothing except to the few fish that happened to come in during that specific time frame.

There are multiple species with multiple genetic strains within each species that all have different run timing. Some of the populations are healthy and require no hatchery supplementation and others can't seem to survive regardless of no fishing for them (which is already the case for some).

As was stated above, the fish are a managed resource that do allow for a lot of harvest with minimal impacts to quite a few of their populations. Other individual populations would crash if you remove a hundred fish a year.