Fraser Sockeye 2025

after a lot of the farms have been removed all salmon have seen a huge increase in numbers across BC. Last few years look at the amount of coho and chinook showing up.

Chinook and coho have been on an upward trend in the SOG since Atlest 2015

And stocks like the Thompson chinook 4-1 doing so well I think can be contributed them doing so well is that sockeye fisheries have been close because they were traditional wacked way back in sockeye gilnet fisheries.
 
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I don’t really understand the pro fish farm sport fish lobby. Please explain to me how fish farms are good for BC Salmon stocks.
They are not. We all know that. Some DFO people post on here - some with ties to stock assistance - that has ties to the aquaculture department. Doubt is the main ideology they usually offer - it has become their adopted defensive response. Lots of discussion on this point on other threads - and some explanations of those effects you mention can be found at:

 
Sockeye Fever people want to go out and hammer them. There will be a couple thousands commercial and first nations gillnets out from hope to Port Hardy. Slammin the chinook we have been shut down all across the south coast to protect.

Im all for fishing when there is identified tac but lets not get to crazy about it yet.
 

You have to add up the p90 est from the individual runs on page 17/18 to get to the 20m number. The panel won't adopt a number until late August but we can get a whiff of whats coming from the data provided.

Things could turn down though, so my fingers are crossed.

It was pointed out that the sockeye have been fishing better than the pinks in the tests and the pinks are supposed to be at 27m... if you like pie in the sky expectations.
 
You can scroll down then look at historical test numbers 2021, 2017 etc. They results are impressive compared to other years, and early.
2025-32 = 1993. I came out of retirement to seine that year and '94 which was an Adams year. '93 was better for sockeyes for our boat.
If I remember correctly, Mr. Walkus tied up beside us and attributed the surprisingly good '93 sockeye to perfect conditions ( temps and water levels) in the Quesnel/Horsefly system which he had visited in the fall of the spawn year. Probably the same all through the other systems as well. Those fish aren't through Mission yet if the Quesnel fish are a big chunk of the mass.
There are not thousands of boats with the proper area licences left. I say let us have a few weeks and let the commercials have just 24-48 hours a week, including the river local indigenous folks. (Not 7d/wk).
American commercials still get a chance by long standing agreement too, since they paid for Hell's Gate repairs way back.
Warm, low river water is always worrisome.
 
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