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[greese30]

Am I wrong or is that now 3 commercial openings and 2 First Nations openings this week? Talk about draining the river.

[redtide]

i heard some talk after these commercial openings that they will raise the limit to 4 sockeye....apparently theres quite a few fish making it past the nets. but it may be for just  the last week of retention. these gillnet openings however will not help with endangered interior coho.

ps. had no problem getting my 2 sockeye each day i was out by hope. people around me had success too. Had to call dfo  RAPP line on a certain indivitual who decided to keep 8 sockeye and keep fishing. they arrived in 20 minutes to talk to the indivitual. i left after they arrived.

[ynot]

I was out in hope Thursday and it was very slow, not 1 landed from 9am to 10 am  ,I did get my 2 between 7-8 am. then I went home after 10 am. might have picked up later.thats the worst I have seen it this season.

[TheLostSockeye]

i heard some talk after these commercial openings that they will raise the limit to 4 sockeye....apparently theres quite a few fish making it past the nets. but it may be for just  the last week of retention. these gillnet openings however will not help with endangered interior coho.

ps. had no problem getting my 2 sockeye each day i was out by hope. people around me had success too. Had to call dfo  RAPP line on a certain indivitual who decided to keep 8 sockeye and keep fishing. they arrived in 20 minutes to talk to the indivitual. i left after they arrived.

That would be nice for a 4  sockeye limit! Is this just wishful talk of another angler or is this certain going to happen?
I've also had no problem getting my 2 ea time out in chilliwack area. Except today we only got 3 instead of 4. Only fished 3 hours today though.

[Rodney]

It's not going to be raised to 4.

[CohoJake]

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the fact that they are meeting on Monday instead of their usual Tuesday suggests to me that they plan to end the season on Tuesday.

[bbronswyk2000]

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the fact that they are meeting on Monday instead of their usual Tuesday suggests to me that they plan to end the season on Tuesday.

Lets hope they do!!!!

[notmebud]

when are the 25 million fish supposed to arrive?

[Rodney]

when are the 25 million fish supposed to arrive?

The total Fraser River sockeye return of 20,733,500 was unchanged. The current adopted run-sizes, by management group are 233,500 Early Stuart, 1,900,000 Early Summer-run, 7,800,000 Summer-run and 10,800,000 Late-run sockeye.

[penn]

when are the 25 million fish supposed to arrive?

They're not going to , the vast majority have been vacuumed by the commercial fishery already. Go to the notices page and have a look at the number of openings in areas D and E including unlimited continuous seine openings in Area D. There's another 26 hour area E gillnet today(Saturday) and tomorrow . This is after an opening Monday(24hrs), Tuesday , Thursday(24 hours) and Friday of this week already  . Almost the same thing the past few weeks prior to that .

[RalphH]

About 8 million fish of the total 20 has been harvested so far - most of that (7 million)by the commercial fishery. Some argue that not enough fish are being taken: http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/04/fishing-the-hell-out-of-b-c-sockeye-the-best-way-to-preserve-stocks-ubc-professor-says/

[yoda]

About 8 million fish of the total 20 has been harvested so far - most of that (7 million)by the commercial fishery. Some argue that not enough fish are being taken: http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/04/fishing-the-hell-out-of-b-c-sockeye-the-best-way-to-preserve-stocks-ubc-professor-says/

So according to his report, why not raise the rec fishermans quota to four a day in the upper fraser. Why is there so much procedure difference from the limits in the skeena where they bump the limits up accordingly??? Seems like their runs are less and doing quite well. Has someone making these decisions got their policy head stuck in the ground?

[armytruck]

[firstlight]

Is amazing how the Albion Test fishery hasn't caught a single Coho yet.

[ynot]

15 coho in the whonnock test net so far.