Originally Posted By: Carcassman
The marine mixed stock fisheries are what will **ck-up Chinook recovery. To get recovery, the fish need to grow to adult size and age. Probably the same with coho, to a lesser extent. They need to grow instead of being sucked up in the July-August fishery as aggressively gorging fish. As long as we lop off the older fish we won't get much for recovery even with closing the terminal areas.


As an example of Elwha Chinook:

Looking at the charts in the Puget Sound Chinook Harvest Management Plan, the biggest chunk of Elwha Chinook goes to AK/BC, then SUS leaving zero local Elwha fishery. rolleyes

In the last 2 decades the Elwha has made escapement goal of 2900 Chinook 2 times, but look who keeps on fishing.




Edited by Lucky Louie (04/30/17 07:45 AM)
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