Fish lovers agree on how to save salmon...until we focus on fishing.Now a cooperative recovery plan for Puget Sound chinook salmon is being challenged because it allows too much fishing. Up to 76% of wild chinook are caught before they get a chance to spawn, a ridiculously high catch rate.
The justification for the high catch rate is that we're all working together on habitat restoration, and "some careful fishing" is part of the cooperative recovery plan. Catching 76% of the fish doesn't seem like "some careful fishing."
Why 76% for Puget Sound chinook when Klamath salmon are much more stringently limited, and fishermen are suffering as a result? Tweet
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