Originally Posted By: Lucky Louie
While we are scraping for salmon and seasons around here, Alaska has a projection increase of Chinook and about 600,000 more Coho to catch commercially this year over last

Before you try to get people fired up over an increase of 600K coho by the Alaskans, you might want to check out coded wire tag information regarding the contribution of Puget Sound coho populations to AK fisheries. Here are some selected examples in % of catch to AK fisheries: Voights Creek (Puyallup) - 0%; Minter Creek - 0%; S. Sound Netpens - 0%; Nisqually - 0%; George Adams (Hood Canal) - 0%; Port Gamble Netpens - 0.1%; Wallace River (Skykomish) - 0.1%; Baker River (Skagit) - 0%; Skagit River - 0.1%; Lower Elwha - 0%.