There is a good report on Sockeye every Friday at the PSC: https://www.psc.org/publications/fraser-panel-in-season-information/fraser-river-panel-weekly-reports/
The one tomorrow should tell the current story - I tend to pay attention to PSC over DFO.
Port Hardy is "Round Island (area 12)"
Just north of Campbell River is "Area 13 seine"
All the numbers in this area (Johnstone Strait) will be lower since the diversion rate is 19% to the inside (See the July 29 report above).
The "San Juan" numbers show the real counts on the fish - area 20 being the main one.
From that report: Catches substantially picked up in Area 20 in the last two days, remained
relatively low in Area 12 and were variable but showed signs of increasing in Area 13.
Interesting quote from your first link: Gill net test fishing catches in the Fraser River have been moderate to high over the last few days, with the highest catches being observed at Brownsville Bar and Qualark.
Early summers are not the target run.
The numbers are all the same as are the comments. By treaty, interpretation of the results is done by the PSC panel which includes both FOC personnel, US personnel and other non government people. The report you quoted was a few days older. The comment was based on test results in the marine approaches and not in river and it related to the number of summer fish in the marine approaches plus that few early summer fish were still in the approaches. Overall more than 50% of fish taken at the test sites are summer fish
You should re-read the last of the two quotes.
As I recall this happens almost every summer when people who track the test results focus on the catch at one test site. The panel has over the years become far more conservative since in the past they allowed over harvest for much the same reasons; over anticipating returns based on good early or isolated results only to have later returns flop and come in below the 50% mark.
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