Catch stats on B 10

[Jennie@ifish]

This just in from Matt Hunter:

Thought I should drop you a note about the B-10 catch. I do the Catch and Effort estimates for
Oregon and receive the Washington data daily. Through August 20th here is the skinny.

There have been about 3200 chinook caught from the 9000 fish quota. If this explodes like it
could, the fishery for chinook could end this week. There is a conference call this Wednesday
for a check point evaluation.

There have been about 6600 coho caught and the success rate should only get better. The
anticipated catch for the B-10 fishery is 60,000!

As of August 20th the success rate for chinook was .11 fish per angler and for coho .22 fish
per angler. This includes some good days ( up to .8 fish per angler) and some bad ( as low as
.08 fish per angler).

Also you might want to pass it along for those who don't know, the B-10 fishery is from the
buoy to the imaginary line from Tongue Point to Rocky Point.

Hope this helps. Quote me if you like since none of this is the least bit confidential.
Contact me any time you have questions.

Thanks,

Matt Hunter
ODFW Fish Biologist
Astoria

[mic4fish]

Thanks Jen. This is some of the information I've been looking for. Thanks for the great job you're doing with this board.
Fish on,
Mike http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Pete]

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Why on earth is it so difficult to provide accurate information? Those of us fishing Buoy 10 know there is a quota. For the Willamette fishery the ODFW was willing to provide reasonably up to date data on how many fish they estimated to have been caught. For Buoy 10, nothing of the sort. ON 8/20 we hear there have been 3200 fish of a 9000 fish quota caught. Today, 8/23 we hear the season will close on 8/27 because the quota will have been met. It is a disservice to anglers and tax payers to play games with the fishing catch quota numbers. Does anyone really believe 5800 chinook will have been caught between Sunday and Sunday? Is the commercial net catch included in this number? What is going on, I clearly don't understand.
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[Jennie@ifish]

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Hi there pete the html man,
I will write to matt and see what he says.
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[NorthRiverS]

Hey Jen,
You state that only 3200 out of 9000 have been caught thru Aug. 20th. Now it's being closed in one week! What a bunch of crap. Do they really think that the remaining 5800 fish will be caught by the 28th? Sorry folks, I don't buy it. We're being bent over again.