Read the title of this thread I'm not talking about Copper river. Are you saying the Okanagan Sockeye are effected by the same ocean temperatures that are increasing their run size back to Okanagan Lake?
Would that be the same professionals (DFO) that didn't want to assist in the Okanagan Sockeye effort or the ones that do nothing about the Sea Lice explosions on the Fish Farms. I don't go be the meeting gaga to inform myself I just use common sense. Maybe the Copper River Sockeye should trend over to the cooler waters Okanagan and Port Alberni sockeye use.
I was refering to this scientific finding which implies considerable overlap of non asian stocks.---------Burgner (1991) reported that Blackbourn’s (1987) study implies, although indirectly, that sockeye salmon have stock-specific winter distributions in the Gulf of Alaska. French et al. (1976) provided separate models of migration for Asian stocks, western Alaskan stocks, and northeastern Pacific stocks of sockeye salmon, but not for finer-scale stock separation. The ocean distribution of Asian and North American sockeye salmon appears to overlap a broad area of the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean, although in general the center of North American fish abundance is east of 175o E, and the center of Asian fish abundance is west of this longitude (French et al. 1976, Burgner 1991). Although there is also considerable overlap in distribution among sockeye salmon originating all the way from the Alaska Peninsula to the Columbia River, scale pattern analyses indicate that sockeye salmon from central Alaska are distributed much further to the west than populations from southeast Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington (French et al. 1976, Burgner 1991). British Columbian and Washington populations of sockeye salmon utilize the area east and south of Kodiak Island in concert with Alaskan stocks, but tend to be distributed further to the south than the Alaskan stocks (down to 46o N) (French et al. 1976, Burgner 1991). We found no data that could be 53 used to distinguish between the general ocean distribution of Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia sockeye salmon or of individual stocks from these regions.
You mean Washington/Oregon don't allow nets from one side to other of the Columbia like the Dfo on the Fraser? They are now predicting double the original forcast to over 200,000 sockeye returning to Okanagan Lake.
