05-03-2012, 06:33 PM
[font "Times New Roman"]Here’s the thing though. We'll use the rapid river hatchery as an example. They need 2500 adults for hatchery needs. Salmon come into the hatchery at 10-200 per day over the 3 month run. The hatchery is only keeping a few fish per day that they intend to spawn, the rest get trucked down river to get re-cycled. So in a nutshell you only need a small sample of each run segment to perpetuate the entirety of the run. [/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]I completly agree with you the Lower river management hoses us. I think they should open later AND manage with better than a 30% upriver over harvest buffer. [/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]One bright spot in this years. To date there have been 400 pitt tagged salmon over Bonn dam. 25% are Rapid River fish, and 20% are Clearwater drainage fish. Usually about 10-15% of hatchery fish are pitt tagged ( usually about 10%)[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]First pitt tagg fish over Lower Granite yesterday headed for Rapid River[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]I completly agree with you the Lower river management hoses us. I think they should open later AND manage with better than a 30% upriver over harvest buffer. [/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]One bright spot in this years. To date there have been 400 pitt tagged salmon over Bonn dam. 25% are Rapid River fish, and 20% are Clearwater drainage fish. Usually about 10-15% of hatchery fish are pitt tagged ( usually about 10%)[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]First pitt tagg fish over Lower Granite yesterday headed for Rapid River[/font]
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