Originally Posted By: Todd
The problem with super emphasizing terminal fisheries is that they would probably be defined as no fishing between Neah Bay and Inner Puget Sound...and would, by political necessity, ignore that millions of "our" salmon are being captured in Alaska and BC, daily...which is the least "terminal" as possible.

There is no doubt at all by anyone in the world that the closer the fish are to their final destination the closer we can come to accurately determining run sizes and compositions.

Fish on...

Todd


Shouldn't this year be a "golden year" from a scientific perspective to learn something from intensive data collection at the terminal fisheries... scale samples, DNA, etc? I get that there's a budgetary aspect to all this, as well. There's got to be folks on the academic side that would jump on this.


Edited by eldplanko (09/15/16 12:21 PM)