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[LP89CG]

no socks this year

is it next year the offspring of the 30mil show up?

I think thats in 2014...

I would like to know what the 2013 cycle is supposed to look like....

[dnibbles]

I think thats in 2014...

I would like to know what the 2013 cycle is supposed to look like....

2013 is coming off of the 2009 return which was the supreme disappointment that initiated the Cohen Commission. Returns won't be much better than this year, most likely.

[mikeyman]

I also read that there have been 323,000 sockeye caught so far this year, out of the estimate run size of 2.2 million...that is 14 almost 15 % of the run taken by what I am going to assume is native fishery. Why is this allowed? This is crazy! With such a small return, nobody should be fishing for sockeye.

[dnibbles]

I also read that there have been 323,000 sockeye caught so far this year, out of the estimate run size of 2.2 million...that is 14 almost 15 % of the run taken by what I am going to assume is native fishery. Why is this allowed? This is crazy! With such a small return, nobody should be fishing for sockeye.

You assumption is partly incorrect. The whiteys in Washington State had a crack at the sockeye already too. Test fisheries pick up quote a few, and yes, the Fraser FSC fishery has taken some.

Read up on allocation policy, escapement targets, total allowable mortality rules etc to see why. Also, reread this thread to see how people in all sectors are chomping at the bit to get a crack at these fish.

[chris gadsden]

Today DFO has reportedly said that there will not be a sockeye opening this year.

Also will save a lot of chinooks from being TOW'ed too.

[chris gadsden]

Its official, no opening.

[Bently]

Its official, no opening.

Let the whining begin. 

[alwaysfishn]

The market price of FN sockeye food fish just shot up......  now that the competition has disappeared.   

[Bently]

Bassonator will be happy, he just has to go to the back yard fence to get his. 

[alwaysfishn]

Bassonator will be happy, he just has to go to the back yard fence to get his. 

You're not suggesting he'd do that and keep it a secret from us ?    

[Athezone]

I for one am happy that there's no opening. It won't kill us to not fish for a couple years and its not like we'll starve. I do love fresh sockeye though so I guess I'll be having my Richmond residing nephew deliver me 3 or 4 beauties and I'll pay him when he arrives. They will be like precious cargo upon delivery, unlike last year when I had so many I gave away at least 30 to 35 lbs. of filleted and smoked sockeye.

Not this year I don't !!!!

[troutbreath]

Saw wild Sockeye at Costco today about 20 bucks for a deboned whole fish. Not bad but i'm not sure where there from.

[Bassonator]

Ranched Alaska....

[liketofish]

Its official, no opening.

Good for the fish. Let them spawn. DFO should shut down FN too. They already have their food fish and no point to let more precious soc die because somebody want to buy them from the back fence. 

[Bassonator]

Yeah and pretty soon no more Shark Fin Soup too.