So what happened at the round table regarding Alberni Inlet sockeye for the rec sector?

Is that even from this thread?

I set lots. I watch sport guys fish all day in front of us, couldn't catch a thing. Fish are on the surface and are on the move. These fish are not predators. Do some reading. I'm outta this one.

Nice to see the fish come back
 
agentaqua said:
517000+ in the lakes Not sure how that can be described as "decimating" the run.
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She did not say "decimating the run".
What she did note is that taking out the latter portion of the run isn't wise whatsoever.
And she is correct.

Harvests theoretically should be timed over the full length of the run temporily in order not to genetically predispose the target species towards early or late run timing. Basic biology and fisheries management.

This is the first year the front end of the run escaped with as many numbers as it did an a very long time, somewhat correcting the reverse of what we are witnessing this year. Does not make wiping out the later returnees justifiable though.

Nog
 
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I think anyone can claim they have a "biologist friend" on here and insert whatever comments they want, or what they wanted to hear or comments from someone whom hasn't even looked at the run numbers or the genetics - or alternatively post truthful and defensible comments. If the comments are scientifically defensible both the run size, the biological benchmarks, the DNA analyses and everything would be offered to support that allegation. But here's what this years run looks like to have something to base the discussion on (from a "biologist friend"):
run 2022.pngrun 2022.png
 
once again asking for data/process verses blind acceptance of unsupported assertions. Once again posting data/science. Thanks again for noticing.
 
How about this for a point.. we were fishing the line on the third opening. Which means furthest west in the canal that was open for gill net. We watched several sport boats fishing in front of us day after day. Since we had 3 to 4 hours between sets we would just sit and observe. never seen one sport boat catch a fish, meanwhile we were on our sets. When we were making 160 fish sets, all those fish just went right by the sport boats before we got em in a net. The fish were in the first 30 feet of water. The gill nets for that area are around 40ft deep. Fish are very sparse in the 30ft water column. These fish don't school up in big numbers unless they are holding somewhere. In which case our present conditions were cold high water, and they were not. Thats why we got the escapement so early. There was and is plenty of fish its just to catch those fish in current conditions with a rod and reel is extremely tough. Believe it or not.

Sockeye salmon are not predators they are prey and only bite when they are grouping up getting into a territorial behaviour. These are fish who hurl around in the ocean for survival and live primarily off zooplankton. These fish did not group up much this year. Which is really good for the run and really good for a lot of things. Sockeye is not a sport fishery as much as some people think it is. Yes its great to sport catch some sockeye but its a meat fishery even at that.
 
530,232 into the lakes as of July 23, 2022 (11 days ago):

530,000+ available for sports catch on the way in (as WMY posted earlier on post #5). As SH said: Believe it or not. Having a "biologist friend" does not change the numbers.
 
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