Originally Posted By: Evo
ya know, thats the thing... the WDFW said that the runs were low, blah blah blah... the last 8 years or so, the Chum have been wiped out of this system...

till this year....

the Indians were supposed to pull their nets, as agreed, and some have, a few havent... even tho, this has been the best Chum fishing/run ive seen in the last 10 years...

while there are B runs around, this is one of the worst years ive seen for the late Ho's in this town...

anyways, rather odd the amount of fish that make it up river to spawn when the nets are pulled...

aint that right Salmo....


Hey Nate, that's right! You're figuring out this fish biology and management stuff real good. Runsize = the number of fish caught (legally and illegally) plus the number of fish that escape to spawn. So if fewer fish are caught in the ocean, Puget Sound, or anywhere, then more fish return to the river where you catch them. But if you don't keep them, they continue upstream to spawn, so count as part of the escapement instead of as part of the harvest.

However, runsize and escapement may have no relationship whatever to productivity, capacity, and diversity of a population.