CM -
40 years ago a Chinook Jack on Puget Sound was considered to be any fish under 28 inches and it was extremely rare to find an adult female Chinook of less than 28. Today it is 24 inches and now it is not unusual to see adult female Chinook of less than 24 inches and rarely less than 22 inches. Kind of sounds smaller to me.


I remember those old sockeye fisheries; in 1988 the sport quota was 55,000 sockeye and the sport fleet was not able to catch that full share in a 6 week seasons with a 6 fish bag limit. A decade ago that last time we fished LW the fleet daily catch was in excess of 10,000/day with a two fish limit.

If anglers want a longer season (bigger quota ) for central sound waters (MA 9 & 10) we are going to either change how we fish or move fish from other fisheries - winter blackmouth or other MAs in the summer.

curt