Originally Posted By: Jake Dogfish
Originally Posted By: eyeFISH
The Cathlamet pound net (fish trap) project is the modern-day model for deploying this uber-selective gear type.

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Final 2017 report....

A total of 7,129 salmon and steelhead were caught; about 2,000 Chinook and 1,000 steelhead were tagged. The Wild Fish Conservancy’s very preliminary analysis of post-release survival of the tagged fish to McNary Dam was 99.6 percent for Chinook and 94 percent for steelhead.

“We were thrilled with these results,” Tuohy said
https://www.nwcouncil.org/news/blog/pound-net-experiment-on-the-lower-columbia-december-2017-report/


Whoa Awesome Survival! hello I wonder if some of the Steelhead headed downstream?


To echo Darth Baiter's comments above....

My guess (based on how some of the past selective gear work has gone) is that these values, which stipulate McNary survival, are likely based on only a subset of the fish handled - those that they tagged that passed Bonneville. So, these values should probably be tempered with some more context. Not that they aren't likely pretty good, relative to other gears.

Unless Doc was there, at the trap, to help them ID the stock/run of fish and perhaps even the tributary/hatchery of origin at the time of tagging?

(good fun intended) laugh






Edited by JustBecause (02/26/18 06:29 AM)