Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum

Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: BCfisherman97 on September 19, 2015, 08:57:48 PM

Title: Clipped fish
Post by: BCfisherman97 on September 19, 2015, 08:57:48 PM

So I caught an adipose clipped red jack Chinook today on the Thompson and was wondering where this fish might have came from?

Title: Re: Clipped fish
Post by: Fish Assassin on September 19, 2015, 09:25:18 PM

Send the head in to the head depot and you will get a report where the fish originated.

Title: Re: Clipped fish
Post by: clarki on September 20, 2015, 02:47:05 PM

Quote from: Fish Assassin on September 19, 2015, 09:25:18 PM

Send the head in to the head depot and you will get a report where the fish originated.

For chinook, yes. All clipped chinook have a CWT (coded wire tag), so the OP should be able to receive brood year and  hatchery of origin info, according to the letter that I received last year from the Salmon Head Recovery Program, partially quoted here "While almost all U.S. hatchery Coho and Chinook are mass marked, only tagged Chinook are fin-clipped in B.C. and the Yukon. In the case of our hatchery Coho a large percentage are clipped and of these a small portion are also tagged."

I turned in several coho heads from different systems, and these did not contain CWT so I received no info back.

Title: Re: Clipped fish
Post by: bkk on September 20, 2015, 02:55:55 PM

Most likely place of origin was the Shuswap Hatchery and the 2nd choice is Spius Creek. Considering the time of year, if the fish has a CWT in it I would think Shuswap.