Originally Posted By: eyeFISH

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Perusing the most recent PSC chinook technical committee reports today.

https://www.psc.org/publications/technical-reports/technical-committee-reports/chinook/

For reference, the CTC uses Queets fall chinook as the main indicator stock for the WA coast. Here's how the PSC exploitation and escapement analysis shakes out for coastal kings during the most recent 8 seasons with a full run reconstruction.... harvest years 2009-2016.




For those who wish to personally verify my assertions, the latest Queets analysis of exploitation (along with every other PSC indicator stock) lives here....

https://www.psc.org/download/35/chinook-technical-committee/10879/tcchinook-18-1-v2.pdf

You'll have to scroll down to page 50/154 in the PDF to see it. All the numbers I am citing come from the final row in the table.

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