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As long as we have hatchery fish that MUST be caught, wild runs will continue their downward slide.


Good one FF2 but one thing was a little off. Not correcting here but sorta sorting local fact vs state wide. We do NOT have to remove the hatchery fish in the Chehalis basin prior to returning to the facility. Unlike many places here we have weirs that stop the run and allow for the removal of the clipped fish & unclipped CWT HOR adults. ( they CWT but do not clip to do blind test to the harvest model assumptions ) The loss if one did not fish at all is simply the investment in producing them for catch nothing genetic. The HOR recruits will be removed be it by catch or at the hatchery.

Now the Hump is another matter and that one can and likely could drive one to take up drinking. Different river different circumstances.


Edited by Rivrguy (09/06/16 10:19 AM)
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