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#121434 - 09/15/01 09:37 AM Releasing Wild Nooksack Coho?????
fishbreath Offline
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Registered: 01/21/00
Posts: 270
Loc: Bellingham,WA

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#121435 - 09/17/01 11:59 AM Re: Releasing Wild Nooksack Coho?????
chumsalmon Offline
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Registered: 06/22/01
Posts: 194
Loc: Bellingham
have to agree with ya there! hey, hows the new boat fishbreath? smile

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#121436 - 09/17/01 08:09 PM Re: Releasing Wild Nooksack Coho?????
Salmo g. Offline
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Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 13521
FB,

If it looks like a screw, walks like a screw, etc.

The Nooksack has been managed as a hatchery wipe-out fishery for fall chinook and coho for over 30 years. In order to harvest the many surplus hatchery salmon, high harvest rates have more likely than not extirpated any significant "native, wild" populations. Wild spring chinook do occur and perhaps some wild early or very late running coho continue to persist, but I've heard of no evidence.

The regulation to release unmarked salmon at least occupies the moral high ground, even if it's completely unrealistic in terms of sustaining natural production of native stocks. The recreational fishery can, as a practical matter, release unmarked salmon with a high probability for survival to spawning. Not so the purse seine and gillnet fisheries.

So even if your aren't "saving" the wild run, since it doesn't exist, releasing those unmarked fish should make you feel a tiny bit better for doing a good deed on behalf of natural production that could sustain itself if the commercial fishing were ever to be restrained from overharvest.

Sincerely,

Salmo g.

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#121437 - 09/17/01 11:19 PM Re: Releasing Wild Nooksack Coho?????
fishkisser99 Offline
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Registered: 12/12/99
Posts: 527
Loc: Eastsound, WA, USA
Well maybe those hatcheries weren't put there for us sporties, but rather to sustain the commercial guys. I mean, a 30-day salmon season (Oct 1 to Oct 31) on the North Fork isn't exactly generous...

And yes the tribes net the snot out of the system, but they also run a hatchery on the South Fork that adds a share...interesting, innit, that we can fish the South Fork from Oct 1 to Dec 31...three times as long as we can fish the North Fork...whatsupwidat? Is the tribe's hatchery really that much more productive than the state's?

I think us sporties should get together and buy the Middle Fork, institute a semi-clipped adipose fin release regulation, and breed a strain of king so big that when they make their first spawning run they'll shred all the gillnets after having sunk all the bay seiners...

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#121438 - 09/19/01 09:57 AM Re: Releasing Wild Nooksack Coho?????
fishbreath Offline
Returning Adult

Registered: 01/21/00
Posts: 270
Loc: Bellingham,WA
Hey Chumsalmon,

The new boat has been great. I've had to iron out a few minor problems with it but over all it's a great boat. Glad I got an Alumaweld and not a brand "X". What a difference from the old Almar!

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#121439 - 09/19/01 11:00 AM Re: Releasing Wild Nooksack Coho?????
chumsalmon Offline
Juvenile at Sea

Registered: 06/22/01
Posts: 194
Loc: Bellingham
ya, i bet it is a big difference! just curious here, but what motor did you end up getting. sounds like you got a pretty good outfit, and it sounds like it's another fish catching machine! smile

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