So you are saying these rivers will be inundated with chums and are above their carrying capacity? Please defend that statement. Considering all chums really need is suitable gravel, optimum water temperatures with suitable DO, a stable over winter flow, and a estuary that is working, please tell me how any system could be overextended.
I have no doubt most anglers on this site are ethical; even more reason to let these fish spawn. Perhaps you should do some research on chum salmon and their life history. They leave freshwater nearly immediately, no freshwater residency, no smaller or weaker fry.Same in the spawning grounds where fry have a finite supply of food to draw on. If there are too many fry, many will be smaller and weaker leaving that cycle vulnerable to survival.
This is so typical.. an opinion is posted; when asked to defend said opinion the poster leaves, says he has had enough.
Lame.
I have no doubt most anglers on this site are ethical; even more reason to let these fish spawn. Perhaps you should do some research on chum salmon and their life history. They leave freshwater nearly immediately, no freshwater residency, no smaller or weaker fry.
And another pissing match ensues
Going back to sticking my toes in the sand with a Corona
...It made me realize that while some people see them as only fertilizer, others still see them as food.
God thats a good one. ill be using that!. I was rather shocked to see a true Purple striped Tiger Trout with nearly no tissue left.....