Concerning the charts eyeFish supplied on page one showing the concentration of tags recovered, I found some interesting statistics.

Even though Alaska attributes to app. 95% of total salmon commercially caught from the western coastal states of the US in 2014, the significant number to me is that Washington State did out harvest Alaska State in Chinook by 800,000 lbs.

In 2013 WA out harvested AK by 2,300,000 lbs. of Chinook which those last two years shows an upswing over 2012 going to advantage AK by 200,000 lbs.

If we are not getting enough Chinook back for escapement in our state of Washington Rivers, we might need to look at our own back yard of Washington State and Federal commercial fisheries. Even though you will not hear a complaint from me if we would get all instead of only partial of our Chinook back unscathed after their journey north.

ESA listed salmon are being fished over from here, up and back but not enough Puget Sound Chinook Salmon to be caught in Puget Sound Rivers for the most part. Something wrong with that picture.

No wonder this State is missing out and in the dumper compared to ALL US coastal states in nonresident licenses and tourism dollars that goes together hand and hand.