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Your Opinion -New PS salmon regs

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Dman:
 I primarily keep chinook from Canada which are unclipped -the Canuck's don't clip 'em -that's been a beef between the US and BC for a while. The primary reason I'm OK with having SOME selective fisheries is for overall escapement increase of the total run. I am a huge fan of wild game and fish and truly believe it's better for you than store bought. Being involved in regional fisheries was really an eye opener as to how distorted some groups view of fisheries management should be approached. One hatchery, such as the Nisqually hatchery that is now closed, has an outbreak of disease and all other hatcheries are labeled as a problem that we need to phase out. Reactionary fish management will never be successful. We've already spoke on how the Skamania and Chambers hatcheries led to the great success in the Great Lakes. There are a lot of local hatchery success stories you don't hear much about. The first sustaining run of Chinook in the San Juans was established in a creek on Lopez island due to a private hatchery. In Nootka, several of the inlet streams have sustaining runs of Chinook and coho from plant's made to neighboring rivers, contributing now to a run of over 100,000 every year. The other factor to consider is that only a small percentage of fish released will survive after caught. I think back to a 50lber a guy caught at Sekiu that he held up for a photo before he released it. Hand under the gills and all the fish's weight sitting the guy's hands, that fish probably sank to the bottom. My personal feeling is it's more effective to have complete closures at certain times, as we've had in recent years. The other and I think the biggest issue with taking wild harvest away from the sporties is that the tribe's gillnets are non-selective....

jackelope:
even when hooked, fought fast and not to the point of exhaustion and released without even removing a fish from the water, there is a 10% mortality rate. the way most people fight and release fish and do the trophy photo's etc, it's no surpirise they will most likely die...if people like light line fishing for big fish, they're probly gonna die if they are released. the newer laws about not removing wild fish out of the water that need to be released by law is entirely logical. people don't like it cuz it doesn't  make for good photos and people break that law all the time, but it's a good law IMO...
oh and yes...tribal gillnets are not selective.

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