Salmo g.

From the comments that Blake, Hatfield, et al have made on this issue it is pretty clear any reductions of the commercial salmon fishing is unacceptable.

Blake has been pretty consistent in his opinion that the prioritization of Chinook and coho in Puget Sound has been a "disaster".

A look at the WDFW sport catch reports indicate that 75% or more of the marine recreational fishing trips statewide have been on Puget Sound.

During 2013 the Mark Selective Chinook fisheries on Puget Sound supported 180,000 angler trips. Those anglers caught 29,000 hatchery Chinook. The last figures I have seen in the economic value of an angler day was that each day was worth $82. That meant that in 2013 those Puget Sound MDF Chinook fisheries generated 15 million dollars for the local economies and each of the hatchery fish kept was worth $500 to those local economy.

That 15 million dollars is roughly 1.5 time the economic value produced by the non-treaty commercial salmon fisheries State wide. Oh by the way approximate 2/3 of the statewide non-treaty commercial landing value is being produced in Puget Sound fisheries. Even in Puget Sound for the non-treaty Chinook catch in marine waters the Commercial fleet is getting a piece of the action. In a typical year the commercial fleet takes 20 to 25% of the catch.

If one's goal is an economic return on the State's investment in hatchery Chinook and coho not job subsidy program for the non-treaty commercial fisheries it is pretty clear that the region needs more fisheries like that Puget Sound "disaster".

Curt