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they way underestimated the return this year. When there are so many fish being caught it means there numbers are wrong. why not give the rec fisherman a break for once and go a little over the quota?
Does anybody know what the actual expected returns for the marine areas were and how they come up with the quotas? Taking area 11 as an example, they agreed on a sport catch harvest quota of 2800 fish. Then they agree to throw "encounters" into the mix at the rate of 4 or 5 to one. I don't know what their exact formula is but that equals 560-700 kings allowed to be retained for the entire summer fishery by the sport fishers. Are they also factoring in the "encounters" with kings that will occur during the coho fishery? Maybe they should have a lottery for giving away surplus kings at the hatcheries when the escapement has been met. We could all have full freezers!
They multiply the actual catch times 5 and say the quota has been reached and shut it down. Gets worse every year. They make agreements during negotiations that are spineless at best. Hunting and fishing in this state will be a thing of the past before you know it. Let's just hope they don't start messing with area 13 next!