05-25-2016, 03:34 PM
The lower sections and the North Fork have apparently been fishing pretty good. If you would like to fish the Northfork below Dwarshak you better hurry. It appears they are closing it after the weekend because the will be reaching their shares.
I am still trying to figure out how they get the harvest share numbers. In the past the harvest share on say the Rapid River has been the total number of fish - 5% for mortality in the river, -2000 for the broodstock and then the remainder are cut in half for sport and tribal.
By my calculations if conservatively 12,389 fish are destined for rapid river you would take 5% away from that and get 11,769 fish. Take 2000 away from that and you get 9769 fish. You divide that number in half for both sport and tribal share you get 4884 fish for the sport harvest share.
The harvest share right now on the Rapid River (Not counting fish headed up river from Rapid River) is 3404. Am I missing something? Because if the formula is the same we are missing 1480 from our harvest share. Does that go and add on to the tribal amount to give them 6364 fish? I am sure there are reasons behind it, but I just don't know what the plan is with the other 2960 excess fish.
Any insight would be helpful. Either way, there are some fish to catch and there is not many things better than getting your butt kicked by a Chinook.
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I am still trying to figure out how they get the harvest share numbers. In the past the harvest share on say the Rapid River has been the total number of fish - 5% for mortality in the river, -2000 for the broodstock and then the remainder are cut in half for sport and tribal.
By my calculations if conservatively 12,389 fish are destined for rapid river you would take 5% away from that and get 11,769 fish. Take 2000 away from that and you get 9769 fish. You divide that number in half for both sport and tribal share you get 4884 fish for the sport harvest share.
The harvest share right now on the Rapid River (Not counting fish headed up river from Rapid River) is 3404. Am I missing something? Because if the formula is the same we are missing 1480 from our harvest share. Does that go and add on to the tribal amount to give them 6364 fish? I am sure there are reasons behind it, but I just don't know what the plan is with the other 2960 excess fish.
Any insight would be helpful. Either way, there are some fish to catch and there is not many things better than getting your butt kicked by a Chinook.
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