If the impact on wild winter steelhead was drastically reduced imagine the great returns we would see in just a few short years. So much money has been spent on habitat restoration on lower CR tribs. For these wild steelhead to recover. The only missing ingredient is spawning wild adults which get raped by gillnets. Without these nets hundreds of more steelies will spawn. Its that simple. With the shifts in hatcheries to wild broodstock, in which the hatchery runs come in march and early april ( clackamas gets lots of winter steel in april even into may) we would see much better returns without gillnets. Hatchery summer steelhead climbing willamette falls, supplying tens of thousands of fish to willamette valley steelheaders would see way more fish without gillnets. The lower columbia trib. Fish impacts will be near zero without gillnets and that's exiting news for die hard steelheaders that would rather not buy a 50,000 dollar sled for a three week season.

If the impact on wild winter steelhead was drastically reduced imagine the great returns we would see in just a few short years. So much money has been spent on habitat restoration on lower CR tribs. For these wild steelhead to recover. The only missing ingredient is spawning wild adults which get raped by gillnets. Without these nets hundreds of more steelies will spawn. Its that simple. With the shifts in hatcheries to wild broodstock, in which the hatchery runs come in march and early april ( clackamas gets lots of winter steel in april even into may) we would see much better returns without gillnets. Hatchery summer steelhead climbing willamette falls, supplying tens of thousands of fish to willamette valley steelheaders would see way more fish without gillnets. The lower columbia trib. Fish impacts will be near zero without gillnets and that's exiting news for die hard steelheaders that would rather not buy a 50,000 dollar sled for a three week season.

With that, I expect Boater, freedrool, and Keith to come up with the best reasons they can, why they deserve more than a 50-50 split of hatchery fish with the non tribal commercials.

according to the link below there was 4 wild steelhead killed durring the tanglenet fishery by the non-tribals, can you post a link that shows that hundreds were killed ?, thanks.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/crc/crc04aug09fact.pdf

Can you post a link to the two non commercial, non family members, non supplier vendors, WITNESSES THAT SIGNED THE DAILY CATCH REPORT? Id also like to know if the president of Salmon for All was included in that catch report?

sorry but i`m realy not interested in dealing with you anymore.

Gosh, ESA wild chinook that spawn in the lower columbia too. They will greatly benefit from not being gillneted. Sandy, Clackamas, molalla, santiams, mckenzie, washougul, lewis, east fork lewis, cowlitz, kalama and any other lower CR trib wild spring chinook runs would all have a safe journey home without tangle/ gillnets ripping them up. Along with steelhead. Lower CR tribs would be the easiest to recover since they don't encounter the series of dams the upper CR fish must climb to get home.

Keith,

I wonder if those springers in the Siletz will hav a better chance to make a comeback once the nets get removed from teh Columbia. The siletz spring chinnok population ranges from 150-700 adults every year. They have never had hatchery influence and never had any restrictions on their limit, yet they can't break that magical 1000 fish run. The river is very healthy and could host several thousand springers. So is the Wilson, Trask, and Nestucca, though they have had hatchery fish planted in them for years, they have no better or worse of a wild run than the Siletz.
Does anyone have an answer to why this is?

Bye bye boater bye bye.

With that, I expect Boater, freedrool, and Keith to come up with the best reasons they can, why they deserve more than a 50-50 split of hatchery fish with the non tribal commercials.

Just remember, the state tried to increase the ESA limit to four or six percent. That would have changed the math.