Great news!

But it should be tempered with this observation from one of the posted comments on that site.

I'd be very surprised if the purse seines don't turn out to have a considerably lower release mortality rate than most other gear types, especially gillnets...but there is absolutely no comparison between a purse seine in the upper watershed in virtually dead water capturing Chinook that have been freshwater hardened for months, and catching/releasing ocean fresh spring Chinook and steelhead in the lower Columbia River, which will likely have a far, far higher capture/release mortality than that cited in the CBB.
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