Lotsa good info here...

http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/forum...html#Post922160

From the PFMC/PSC re exploitation of coastal WA chinook. Queets is the PSC indicator stock for WA Coast and GH is... well.... GH. Bastages take about half of all pre-harvest adult production



For GH, that historically translates to 75% of the kings bonked for the box. Some years it's been a lot worse.

Check out these CWT recoveries from the 2003-2005 brood years ( representing returns as recent;y as 2011)



And here's comparative pre-terminal interception data for GH, Queets, CR URB's, and Willapa...



NOT pretty.


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