Registered: 03/08/99
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Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
Originally Posted By: FleaFlickr02
4300 "harvestable" wild steelhead on the Chehalis side? Guess that's my answer to why they net 5 days a week all season. I'm no proponent of killing wild steelhead, but shouldn't the state side be entitled to 2,150? As I said, I won't be whacking any, but wouldn't a lower harvest quota for the QIN translate to fewer days of gillnetting, resulting in more productive fishing upstream?
We kill our 2150 as CnR mortality, since we will catch 42,300 wild steelhead in the Chehalis basin.