I think this test fishery just broke the record of how many pinks were caught. I checked 2023 and 2011 and not even September test catches were this high.
May be this 27 Million record will be set this year.
Area 29 - Whonnock Sockeye Gillnet 8/25/2025 543
Nothing in 2003 to match, which I think was the record return? At 2003 and 2011 were 2 of the historical high run sizes.
so apart from the San Juan Seine test on August 14t when 38k pinks were caught in 6 sets, there isn't any other test catch that mirrors what Whonnock reported yesterday. Hard to say what that one report means in terms of the eventual run size.