Originally Posted By: Lucky Louie


“The projected spawning escapement for Queets River coho is below the FMP objective of 5,800 natural spawners. Under court orders for Washington coastal and Puget Sound stocks, the treaty tribes and WDFW may agree to annual spawner targets that differ from the FMP objective. In 2017, the tribal and WDFW co-managers agreed to an escapement objective of 5,130.”



This is euphemistically referred to as "lowering the escapement floor".

For perspective, what they've done this year is NOTHING compared to 2016. In order to put together last year's NOF/PFMC ocean salmon fishing package, the escapement floor on Queets coho was lowered to 2900.

Things that make ya go, "HMMMMMMMMM?"
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