#1061372 - 01/16/23 12:32 PM
Re: Puget Sound Chinook RMP
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
Registered: 11/24/03
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C'man, yes wild Stilly Chinook are functionally extinct. As one of those Pollyanna optimists I'm not ready to throw in the towel. First, let me say, they are awesome Chinook, on parr with Skagit summer Chinook, just far less numerous. I want to try to preserve the stock with aggressive conservation hatchery measures, up to and including captive broodstock. I think it's worth a try. If it fails, then we can move on, confident we did all that was humanly possible in our time. Situation sounds a whole lot like wild LCR tules. Adult recruitment incapable of replacement... wild tules functionally extinct were it not for oodles of hatchery-origin strays swamping the gravel. Curious what in your mind makes one more worthy of saving than the other?
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#1061373 - 01/16/23 01:25 PM
Re: Puget Sound Chinook RMP
[Re: Salmo g.]
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 12/06/07
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I don't think Tribal leadership has any interest in NT recreational fishing. WDFW has to do whatever the Tribe tells it or give up fishing time in marine waters. Ergo, WDFW will throw trout and steelhead fishing under the bus to save a few days of mixed stock salmon fishing in PS. Yes! Who issues gold stars around here?
Edited by RUNnGUN (01/16/23 01:31 PM)
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#1061375 - 01/17/23 08:44 AM
Re: Puget Sound Chinook RMP
[Re: eyeFISH]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 13523
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C'man, yes wild Stilly Chinook are functionally extinct. As one of those Pollyanna optimists I'm not ready to throw in the towel. First, let me say, they are awesome Chinook, on parr with Skagit summer Chinook, just far less numerous. I want to try to preserve the stock with aggressive conservation hatchery measures, up to and including captive broodstock. I think it's worth a try. If it fails, then we can move on, confident we did all that was humanly possible in our time. Situation sounds a whole lot like wild LCR tules. Adult recruitment incapable of replacement... wild tules functionally extinct were it not for oodles of hatchery-origin strays swamping the gravel. Curious what in your mind makes one more worthy of saving than the other? Doc, intrinsically neither is worth more than the other in terms of ecosystem values. However, as a fish snob, a quality I expect that you identify with, Stilly Chinook are genetically very similar to Skagit summer Chinook. And they are fat dripping delicious! (I've never eaten a Stilly Chinook.) So for ecosystem and ESA purposes, Tules should be maintained via hatchery supplementation ideally, replacement practically, so that the genotype is not lost. Unlike Stilly Chinook, where even the hatchery program struggles with replacement recruitment, LCR Tules fortunately don't have that problem in the foreseeable future.
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#1061378 - 01/18/23 09:24 AM
Re: Puget Sound Chinook RMP
[Re: bushbear]
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 04/04/10
Posts: 199
Loc: United States
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Salmo,
In another forum you suggested cutting tule releases altogether so that in four years they would be gone and no longer a constraint on whacking wild Brights. Which is it?
""Hmmm, here's another thought. Just stop releasing hatchery tules altogether. I postulate that lower river tule habitat is degraded to the point that naturally self-sustaining tules don't and cannot exist. So in four years the river will be barren of tules, and fishing forecasts and seasons can be set according to the abundance of the Chinook we actually want to fish for and catch. How, pray tell, does this not work?""
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#1061393 - 01/20/23 09:29 AM
Re: Puget Sound Chinook RMP
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 13523
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But, my view the world is apparently a very warped and minority view. True on both counts, but you're in good company.
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#1061395 - 01/20/23 10:38 AM
Re: Puget Sound Chinook RMP
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River Nutrients
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