According to the department, there was 2,385,600 pounds of Chinook harvested to date in 2015, which was almost split evenly between North and South PS commercials. Majority of these salmon caught in mixed fisheries and if divided by 15 lbs. average (maybe a little generous considering the size of the Chinook I caught in area 9 this year) there would have been a little over 159,000 Chinook caught commercially in Puget Sound.

The summer closure of area 10 and the cut harvest quota in area 9 for recreational anglers did nothing conservation wise but save a handful of paper fish. The closure and harvest cut that the WDFW and the Muckleshoots agreed to was ludicrous.

BUT OF COURSE, IMAGINE THAT, SURPRISE, SURPRISE,
the tribes and WDFW did agree to at least 159,000 commercially caught Chinook already harvested in PS this year.

The least they could do is reopen Area 10 and restore quotas next year for summer recreational anglers like planned at the last NOF meetings this year. Anything less is unacceptable.

Chop, Chop get busy Ron W. Start making smoke signals instead of blowing smoke up our ass as you did at the last NOF meetings.