People want to see the Skagit left alone but have no problem fishing over mixed stocks in the ocean or Puget Sound. Releasing shakers or wild fish that may be returning to a river or stream where the forecast return is maybe a couple hundred fish. What's the mortality rate of salmon CnR'd in the salt....? It's not an inconsequential figure.

Brood nailed it when he said there'll be nobody who gives a rats azz about these fish after the fisheries have been closed a substantial period of time.

I would venture to say that since the Skagit/Sauk closed to the late season CNR that more fish have died from poachers than would have during a CNR season. Fishermen on the river reduces poaching.

People want to see the Skagit left alone but have no problem fishing over mixed stocks in the ocean or Puget Sound. Releasing shakers or wild fish that may be returning to a river or stream where the forecast return is maybe a couple hundred fish. What's the mortality rate of salmon CnR'd in the salt....? It's not an inconsequential figure.

Brood nailed it when he said there'll be nobody who gives a rats azz about these fish after the fisheries have been closed a substantial period of time.

I would venture to say that since the Skagit/Sauk closed to the late season CNR that more fish have died from poachers than would have during a CNR season. Fishermen on the river reduces poaching.