Originally Posted By: Smalma
Lucky Louie-

While there appears to be some harvestable Snohomish pinks (forecast 171,000 with an escapement goal of 120,000). How do you propose to structure mixed stock pink fisheries without harvesting Stillaguamish and Skagit pinks?

The Stillaguamish forecast was 40,205 with and escapement goal of 155,000 while the Skagit forecast was 85,600 with an escapement goal of 330,000. Pinks from both those systems swim through MA 9 and MA 8-2.

curt


Those numbers certainly do not bode well.

If seasons end up based upon those projections I hope the projections have a high statistical reliability..........and that there are "what if" mechanisms for timely in season management decisions to prevent another debacle as seen last year with coho.
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