If the numbers do come I'll be very worried about interior stocks of fish and summer runs that have to make it through the gauntlet of the commercial and native nets. Don't forget the hordes flossers as well. Love hate relationship with the sockeye returns, love seeing them come back in force but hate the side affects that come along with the commercial and recreational openings.
Couldn't agree more.
All I'm hearing in the media lately is the anticipated large return of sockeye, followed by enbridge commercials about how much enbridge loves sockeye. I'm sick of it quite frankly.
Industry is freaking out and putting pressure on fisheries managers to allow openings left right and centre for increasingly longer periods of time. While this is the brood from the 2010 parent group we are talking about, and can (all else being equal, of course) anticipate a large enough return to allow for commercial openings, we need to put pressure on DFO to be smart about these openings (unlikely) because it doesn't talk a rocket scientist to figure out that increased openings means increased bycatch of endangered runs of steelhead, coho, and chinook.