What we have here are suggestions from the public at the last NOF meeting for Grays Harbor in Montesano. Keep in mind these are suggestions from the public and were not vetted. More or less a shopping list if one chooses to view it that way,


2016 Grays Harbor North of Falcon Public Meeting March 24, 2016 6 – 8 pm
Montesano City Hall, Montesano, WA


Staff: Steve Thiesfeld, Mike Scharpf, Barbara McClellan, Chad Herring, Curt Holt Public: 47 Individuals

• No directed salmon fishing at all and begin Steelhead Feb.1

• Spring chinook fishery in marine area 2.2

• Seal/sea lion issues and accounting of those lost fish

• Close rivers that do not have hatchery production available

• Spring Chinook through the end of July

• Close Wynoochee in Oct and Nov all fishing

• Chehalis Main Stem & Satsop - 1 fish release all wild Chinook and coho

• Skookumchuck - no wild retention

• Commercial week 43 and 44 1 day each week

• MA 2.1 – Close for two weeks in the main marine area and move those impacts to the Humptulips North Bay and add two weeks to that fishery

• One fish and done - wild or hatchery coho

• Wynoochee – keep open thru October, close October 15 or November

• Keep Wynoochee open

• Humptulips North Bay fishery – try moving fishery into July

• Require knotless net use

• No bait to reduce recreational mortality

• Chehalis MS – to Fuller open October 1st

• No commercial fishing in 2A

• 5 days a week for freshwater fisheries when QIN is not fishing

• Open fisheries with hatcheries

• Mandatory retention required in one and done fishery, first legal fish you have to keep it

• No mandatory retention

• Boat limit in saltwater allowed now, should we reconsider this?

• Partial week fishery if we are not able to cut enough coho to meet goal

• Consider bait ban Fuller downstream to mouth of MS

• Fish every other day

• Jack fishery in the Chehalis - will we lose it?