Originally Posted By: MPM
Maybe someone can clarify something for me. I've heard that the biggest sticking point right now is getting Puyallup harvest of Chinook from 58% to 50%. Is that including modeled incidental impacts? Is that referring to hatchery or wild Chinook? It seems to me that we should be going for much more than 50% harvest of hatchery Chinook.

I just don't understand what that number is really referring to.

The 50% exploitation rate that was mentioned is for naturally produced Chinook. That would include catch in directed Chinook fisheries as well as incidental catch in other fisheries. I guess I also should edit this for Evo. These are total exploitation rates from all fisheries.



Edited by OncyT (05/11/16 03:57 PM)
Edit Reason: Edited for Evo