Hunting Washington Forum
Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: Born2late on August 02, 2019, 05:33:26 PM
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https://komonews.com/news/local/environmental-concerns-add-new-species-to-us-overfished-list
It says three coho runs in washington. Any one know what that means having them added to this list?
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It's not good news for sure. They mention potential restrictions to commercial fishing, but in Puget Sound what they have done in the past is severely restrict or close fishing when that particular run is going through an area. It didn't mention if they were listing a particular run (river) or in general, I would guess it is a particular run. Most of our fishing is dictated by what is on the ESA list. Unfortunately, more abundant runs come through at very similar times so it often results in ugly decisions.
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How do we figure out which runs they are? That information has to be somewhere.
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I saw on the tv news last night that the snohomish river system is one of the coho "overfished"
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I saw on the tv news last night that the snohomish river system is one of the coho "overfished"
Sounds about right.
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I seen an article from Alaska that said they figured they were catching 50% of Washington and Oregon bound fish. I think it mentioned clipping or transponders or something like that how they knew they were WA fish. I know my relatives up in Vancouver Island in Port Hardy always said they got another "bullet" which meant a stubby Columbia river fish.
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Note the term "overfished" which tends to suggest what the solution is.
Salmon face a ton of issues: the blob, damns, farm runoff, hatchery lawsuits, seals, development, whatever and fishing. It's pretty clear what the solution is, ignore everything except fishing.
