I'm OK with Cory catching a dark salmon in spawning condition for her first one. But when it gets to intentionally catching thirty for the exercise, I say go to the gym.

These fish are close to being dead. They will never recover any body reserves and still must finish their migration and spawn. Energy the fish spends trying not to be landed is that much less that can go into spawning. These salmon have already provided for fisheries in the ocean, the bays and the rivers where they are great fish to catch.

When they get that close to spawning, leave them alone.