Dismal local outlook for upcoming salmon season
Salmon fishing is a little bit like major league baseball. If things don’t go well, there’s always next season.
And like baseball, spring is the time to think about the upcoming seasons for salmon.
March and April are the months when state fisheries officials and tribal leaders, co-managers of Washington’s salmon runs, meet to agree on how many fish are expected to return to their native rivers. Then they decide on how many can be taken by sport anglers and commercial fishers and how many should be left to spawn more fish for the future.
The forecasts are already in. And the news is mostly bad, particularly for local anglers.
Runs of chinook, chum and pink salmon in Puget Sound local rivers are expected to be down, dramatically in many cases.
But there is a bit of good news.
Coho stocks in Washington are holding their own, and this year’s coho run is expected to be a little better than last year’s.
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