Originally Posted By: Carcassman
Quantified by ADFG with coho wherein 100% of the coho C&R'd in rec fishery in an estuary became crab food.


It was bad (scary bad, really) but not 100% bad. Tidewater coho suffered a 69% release mortality with sport gear on the Little Su...

http://www.akleg.gov/basis/get_documents.asp?session=28&docid=1949

Coho are BAR NONE the worst C&R salmonid in tidewater. ADFG research studies on coho captured by fish wheel traps showed a 47% handling mortality.... WITHOUT the added risk of a hooking wound and the physiologic stress of being exhausted by rod/reel.
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