By: Dan Marvin

Dan Marvin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:10:49 +0000

Thanks Kent I love the word mark selective, the recent north of falcon ocean coho sports fishery was mark selective. The reported mark rate was about 50/50 the quota was set at 100,000 fish so to catch 100,000 hatchery fish just about 100,000 wild were handled with a minimum of 20% mortality rate. There goes 20,000 wild, then the fishery moves to buoy 10 were again the fish are handled with a reported 10% mortality rate, even though some of our own fisherman tried hook and line fishing and thought a 50% mortality rate would be closer to the truth. Then on up the Columbia the mark selective fishing continues intill it finally enters the tributary’s where another round of mark select fishing is applied with associated impacts and finally to the spawning beds were all kinds of creative sport fishing methods are used since at this stage of there lives the fish aren’t really biting anymore. I guess I’m just having a hard time seeing the true benefits of this tool as a means of recovery.

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By: Dan Marvin