Thanks for the details. What's the best spot for Chinook - I am going back August 21 .Here is the Area F troll fishery July 15th update:
CHINOOK
The 2016 Area F Troll Chinook TAC is 192,000 pieces, and will be managed to the
maximum 3.2% exploitation objective on WCVI Chinook using an Effort / Harvest
Relationship Management Tool. Approximately 100 vessels are currently
participating in the opening and CPUE has declined to 15 Chinook per vessel per
day over the last 5 days. The estimated total catch as of July 15 is 100,000
Chinook which is 52% of the 2016 Area F Troll TAC. The total catch validated
to date is 80,198 Chinook. The estimated harvest rate of WCVI chinook is 1.3%
as estimated by the Effort Harvest Management Tool.
The first genetic analysis of catch was completed this week. Stock proportions
of troll catch from DNA samples are as follows:
Sample #1
- from 351 fish (23 vessel landings) caught between June 21st and June 25th
- 45.7% Upper Columbia Summer/fall, 20.6% North & Central Oregon, 19.5% South
Thompson, 7.0% Snake River, 1.4% WCVI, 1.4% Skeena and 0.0% Nass"
The above report from July 15 2016 is almost identical to the July 14 2015 update as far as numbers of fish caught. The quota for 2016 is almost twice that of 2015 (because of the Pacific Salmon Council's "abundance index").
Last year at the July 15 report the fishery was projected to last thru July 31 but closed July 21 before reaching quota (too many WCVI Chinook???).
I'd say the troll fishery is not the whole story here. Based on the abundance index, there are supposed to be twice as many Chinook ad last year.
Catch has declined to 15 fish per vessel. It started out at 105 fish per vessel Per the June 29 2016 report.