Grace underfire
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Surely something has changed. Coho seem to have gone from about 90% unclipped to a fairly even split in the Strait of Georgia in one year. Did our hatcheries actually start clipping the fish?
Yeah opposite for me last weekend off NanaimoI think it's just luck of the draw. When I tried two weeks ago we couldn't find a single clipped.
45-70' todayhow deep are you finding them?
Even using scissors by hand you end up with half removed or incomplete removal…Washington state Coho…. They use an automated machine that gets 90%
Some of the fish are missing on part of their fin which is consistent with an automated clipper not getting the “whole” fin
Exactly, further enhancing the BSAn unclipped fish is not always wild. It could very well be unclipped hatchery.