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[Toprod]

Got into a few pinks in area 14 Hornby Island area in the last few days while fishing for springs, they are on their way....

[Ambassador]

[mikeyman]

Reports...pinks off bowen this weekend.

[Easywater]

A few pinks coming around the bottom of the Island (Sooke) in the test fishery:

http://www.psc.org/TestFish/Area20GNsummary.PDF

[MetalAndFeathers]

It really isnt looking to good this year, its alot slower compared to 2015

[fic]

May be Hatchery enhance the pinks, springs on the Squish and Vedder?  The Alaskans finds money to do it.  What about that surprise surplus money our BC Provincial Government has found?  Trudeau's government is busy tossing borrowed money else where.

[RainbowMan]

Expectations are well managed. Pinks are the new sockeye now  ....

[wildmanyeah]

May be Hatchery enhance the pinks, springs on the Squish and Vedder?  The Alaskans finds money to do it.  What about that surprise surplus money our BC Provincial Government has found?  Trudeau's government is busy tossing borrowed money else where.

Fraser river is forecasted for pinks to be abundant, I don't really see the commercial value to having an enhanced pink run. Leave it wild 

[Easywater]

It really isnt looking to good this year, its alot slower compared to 2015

I am hoping things are considerably later due to the weather we had in the spring.
Lake fishing was all out of whack because of a slow start then a quick heat-up.

May be Hatchery enhance the pinks, springs on the Squish and Vedder?  The Alaskans finds money to do it.  What about that surprise surplus money our BC Provincial Government has found?  Trudeau's government is busy tossing borrowed money else where.

I am torn about hatcheries.
Between the Russians and Alaska, there are about 4 billion pink fry release in the north Pacific each year.
All these fish compete for the limited food resources there.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/we-alaskans/2017/06/04/too-many-pink-salmon/
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Hyper+abundant+pink+salmon+outcompeting+wild+sockeye/10050284/story.html

We should look at getting an agreement on reducing these "ranched" salmon as I believe it affects all runs of salmon here.

[RalphH]

apparently, so I have read, steelhead abundance is negatively correlated with pink salmon abundance. That doesn't mean steelhead stocks are depressed due to pinks just that when pinks are high steelhead returns tend to be low.

[wildmanyeah]

I'm no expert... nor am i arguing your point Ralph.
Just would of thought that with more nutrients (Eggs, Dead Fish) in the system ... you would think that the steelhead would THRIVE!

Interesting to know why it would be the other way around?   Appreciate the discussion...

I suspect gillnet fisheries for pink and chum are part of it. Nothing survives once it hits a gillnet. Watching the test fisheries they get a steelhead once in awhile. Hardly ever says released.

Chinook stocks have been doing okay too since we have seen bad sockeye run and hardly any commercial gillnet fisheries for sockeye. I also read a report that stated chinook stocks that are part of a river system that has a lake have been increasing over recent years.

When sockeye and pink gillnets are down they clean up everything.

I am sure there is so much more to it

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[Tenz85]

So much doom and gloom already and the run hasnt really begun just yet but any day now... perhaps with all the bait around this season they're still beefing up for a later return? No expert by ANY means but just food for thought. 

No luck a week ago up howe sound ut I got one casting off ambleside a couple days back. pink zinger anchored off the cap mouth.

[Dave]

Expectations are well managed. Pinks are the new sockeye now  ....

So true!!  I remember the day when pinks were considered trash fish to anglers.  How things have changed.

[Fish Assassin]

Matter of time when pikeminnows become the new pinks and we have Rodney to blame.

[MetalAndFeathers]

Still awfully slow on the beaches