I agree-I went with my daughter--we had been many times before--we were really underwhelmed!!!We go every four years and last year was supposed to be a peak run. I know timing is everything but last fall was a dismal showing. Not sure where to find the numbers but best run we’ve seen was 2010. It was huge.
The 2002 run had more than 30 million? Here’s a fun fact, the 1991 run had less than a thousand. And people blame DFO for not being able to predict science.2002 was far bigger than 2010, big numbers from late September through the better part of November in 2002 while 2010 had the standard Oct weeks that were good. This year’s return was good but the viewing wasn’t great due to significant changes in the lower river.
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Did you go to Alberni last year to fish Sockeye?and how was Alberni wiped out?
Between two boats working in the lake there was somewhere around 600,000 sockeye removed and sold to Walcan 2018 season. I thought DFO was concerned about the Adams River stock, hence stopping commercial gill netters from their fishing opportunities? Wierd.
The fishery in Kamloops Lake, and in some years Little Shuswap and Shuswap Lakes, are part of the Fraser River FN FSC fishery (BCI) in the table shared above. While I’m no fan of the lunacy that overcomes DFO every time there is abundance of Fraser sockeye (they screw the comigrating weak stocks of chinook, coho and steelhead every time), the only group that harvested a smaller percentage of their allocation were the demonstration fisheries.
Not sure what your source of info is but harvesting 600,000 fish from any of those lakes is no easy task and couldn’t be done covertly, so no way it wasn’t accounted for. Also begs the question who was harvesting and for what purpose? While the local FN do harvest and use the fish harvested this far upstream I have many friends who are TIB, LSIB and Adams Lake FN and none of them want more than a few for their smoker. These fish have been out of the Ocean for 3+ weeks by the time they are schooling in Shuswap Lake, having swum up through the Fraser Canyon and Hell’s gate and the Black Canyon on the Big T ... they are not a high quality fish. Even the rec snagged fish in the Big-T, while there are fresher fish in the mix, the majority are well past their prime.
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The 2002 run had more than 30 million? Here’s a fun fact, the 1991 run had less than a thousand. And people blame DFO for not being able to predict science.