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[ynot]

The last 7 days test fishery are scary to say the least. johnstone st.  seine 866 fish 6 sets per day.
                                                                                                   gill net 56 fish

                                                                             san juan          seine   292
                                                                                                   gill net  40

fraser river                                                        cottonwood  gill net           1
                                                                         whonnock     gill               8

that's 7 day total each location

[wildmanyeah]

Yeah catches have been very very poor

[wildmanyeah]

Still zero catch in the in river gilnets, marine catches are pathetic, Wonder if this will be the worst return on record.

[Hike_and_fish]

But yet they're still being retained in gill nets in the Fraser. My buddy just purchased 2 coolers full last week.

[ynot]

todays report is a disaster      early summer 85000   summer 224000 (forcast was 3.9 millon) late 111,000.

 It is currently estimated that approximately 172,500 sockeye and 28,000 pink salmon have passed the Mission hydroacoustic site. Test fishing catches and daily escapements of sockeye salmon continue to track well below pre-season forecast expectations. The Panel adopted an Early Summer-run run size of 85,000 with an Area 20 timing of July 26, a Summer-run run size of 224,000 with an Area 20 timing of August 17, and a Late-run run size of 111,000 with an Area 20 timing of August 25.
 
 I think they missed 1 million from the summer run as on Tuesday it was 1,065,000

[wildmanyeah]

no it looks like the summer run got down sized again, I was talking to a guy from the PSC who said if we dont get a bump of fish this year come returns will be worse then then 2005 the worst year on record.

It's kind of throubling as these fish are part of the 2015 brood and would of went into ocean in 2016 or 2017.  So that mean if ocean survival is the reason for this collapse the blobs effects lasted for years after 2015.

Skeena and port alberni also had terrible sockeye returns

Skeena was 1.6 million in 2015 and this year 600k

[ynot]

ok its the worst run ever.

The Fraser River Panel (Panel) met today to review assessment data on Fraser River sockeye and pink salmon. The current in-season total run sizes for Early Stuart, Early Summer-run, Summer-run and Late-run are 27,000, 85,000, 224,000, and 111,000, respectively. As of today, the sum of these estimates results in a total Fraser sockeye run of 447,000 fish. This is the lowest run-size ever estimated since estimates began in 1893, and lower than the previous record for lowest run size of 858,000 observed in 2016. 

[RalphH]

data after 2016 indicated the Blob never completely dissipated and returned in 2018 and has continued this year though not as severe as 2013 -15.