The Chinook runs of concern this year (predicted to be over-harvested according to the model run) are the Nooksack and White River spring/early stocks and the Skagit, Lake Washington, Puyallup, Nisqually, Mid-Hood Canal, and Skokomish summer/fall stocks.

Lake Washington Chinook has been the "poster child" the past couple of years. In 2014, the non-tribal fleet absorbed the majority of ESA impacts when 75% of the impacts were tribal. The same is true of most other Puget Sound Chinook stocks.

The 2015 Adult Equivalent Impacts and Exploitation rates for Lake Washington Chinook show a tribal impact of 74% and a NT impact of 26%. The tribal impact on Lake Washington Chinook from the ocean to Cedar River is 186 fish out of a total projected take of 253 and 132 of those fish are taken in the extreme terminal and freshwater net fisheries.



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