2024 Puget Sound Winter CHINOOK SALMON Update, Salmon Predators, and MORE
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Live stream to discuss with data the 2024 Puget Sound Winter Blackmouth season. How did we get here? What's going on with our blackmouth and where are we going?
Did you know that March 6th, 2024 was one of the 6 best days on the water fishing for chinook in Marine Area 10 with large angler participation in over 10 years?
We also highlight just how much impact on salmon marine mammal predation is having.
We need to discuss an urgent public action from NOAA and continuing to invest money into raising additional hatchery salmon for endangered Orcas and fisheries.
I will also discuss Westport / Ocean bottomfishing, SW WA Steelhead and of course, take all of your questions.
NOAA Study on Pinniped predation - www.nature.com...
Hatchery funding topic - www.fisheries....
Prey increases for Orcas - www.fisheries....
MA11 page - pnwbestlife.co...
Marine Weather Safety - pnwbestlife.co...
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Great information as usual. I sat down and commented right away and would not of had that opportunity if not for you flagging it up. Thanks for all you do.
Thanks man, every voice counts on this!
Great content, appreciate all the time you put into these. Hopefully I'll catch one of your live streams.
Thanks man!!
Only my second year ,for salmon& steelhead.got bit about a month ago in reedsport ,with the most amazing guide.he put us in and I got hit 4 times right off the bat.lost 3,but prays,to God and ?? Jyst right place right time it was 25 inch.long and 12 pounds ir so .I'm bit and wow.i jyst want to kearney all I can
Nice man, keep at it!
Really appreciate you! I always love seeing the sources and numbers.
It might be a good idea if you created clips/shorter videos on different topics for search optimization and so that they're more easily digested. For example If you made a short video on salmon predation by harbor seals that's super interesting and easier to digest for most people rather than a 40-minute video regarding a wide range of topics. (Just a thought, Love your content by the way)
That’s a great idea! I will still do that as well. I just am hoping I can create conversation and get questions and topics from folks on these live streams.
There's a percentage and I don't recall exactly what it is but I believe it's about 10 percent of all hatchery Chinook will never outmigrate from Puget Sound. Those fish will be sublegal in Puget Sound when the rest of their hatchery friends have outmigrated into the open ocean.
Wild fish also can become residents.
for sure!
The % changes based on how much time they spend in the hatchery though. Yearling chinook are more likely to stay in Puget Sound compared to fingerlings.
@PNWBestLife yes,and no. There's a Blackmouth program that forces hatchery Chinook to stay in Freshwater for an extra year but a portion of all Chinook runs does this naturally.
According to an Article I found from 2016 1/3 of all adult Chinook caught in Puget Sound spent their entire lives there. I would post it but everytime I attempt to post an article on UA-cam it seems to disappear. It's a little dated so there may be updated information about this that I haven't read.
Are we not allowed to post links?
In the comments section? I think you can post links...
Hi, Dan from Bellingham here, be heading to Sekui for opener. Appreciate the info your providing! Maybe we could hook up and fish the Bellingham bay this summer. I have a boat moored in Bellingham....
That sounds great! My son is attending college up there so I have many excuses to run up to Bellingham, even better if I don't have to drag my boat... Sekiu is gonna be FIRE when it opens I think. I'm trying to decide between that and Columbia River Springers...
Tough choice between those two. I like the chance to get some bottom fish in the freezer! I did pretty well in Bellingham bay last year, 23 keepers Lost a few and a couple to the sea lions! End of August 1st part of Sept seemed to be best. I have 3 weeks of during that time so lots of choices of times to go...
They need to change hatchery practices, its not the hatchery fish themselves. Had they fixed this year's ago we wouldn't have hatchery programs being sued into extinction.
I think they've changed many of their practices to use in-basin stocks of fish though. When I talk to hatchery folks on specific rivers they know it doesn't matter what their practices are, they will still get sued by the wild fish folks.
@PNWBestLife it's not just genetics, it's timing and rearing temperatures, and possibly feeding and rearing environment. There's an article/study about it that tears down the poorly conducted studies that have concluded that hatchery fish are causing wild fish decline when it is in fact hatchery practices not the fish themselves.
I will attempt to post it in a reply since UA-cam seems to delete my links.
salmonchronicles.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/brannon-afs-hatchery-study.pdf
@@PNWBestLife salmonchronicles.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/brannon-afs-hatchery-study.pdf
@@brianjohnston4207 That being said these is also a large contingent whose sole desire it to eliminate hatchery all together. Be mindful on where those articles/ study's are coming from and if they are peer reviewed. I do believe that the state made the necessary changes to the hatcheries for NOAA not that they can continue to improve on them.