24 Jul
Fish Count > 13,000
Friday Morning Update: official count now: 13645
While waiting for the offical tally to be updated we have learned the Sockeye count at Leavenworth is climbing nicely. Keep those fingers crossed.
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From reader Jim:
This mornings article in Seattle Times re Sockeye Run. Thought it would be of interest to all in the ongoing watch.
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A record summer for returning sockeye
Sockeye salmon, an oceangoing species that starts and ends its life hundreds of river miles inland, are swimming up the Columbia River this…
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008072081_sockeye250.html
July 25th, 2008 at 7:15 amWe stopped by the Tumwater dam fish ladder on saturday july 26th they were catching and testing and weighing the fish. One of the people in the crowd ask the people if there would be a sockeye season this year on Lake Wenatchee his reply was it does not look like it now ,which backs up a statement we had heard earlier this week about the fish count at rocky reach and rock island dams on the columbia .
July 28th, 2008 at 9:51 amSo, they are saying there are signs of the count slowing huh?!?! Well, that just goes to prove my earlier point!! The people in charge of the fish counting at Tumwater dam are not counting all the fish!! As of 7/28/2008 the difference between Rock Island Dam and Rocky Reach Dam is still holding strong at 32,830!!! Now, folks running the show have said they only need a 23,000 fish escapement and anything above that would be the harvest quota! If the numbers were true it would give us a nearly 10,000 fish quota!! Lets face the fact that the many departments that have there hands in this believe that we are all a bunch of idiots that would never catch on to what they are doing! Those 32,830 fish that have not went over Rocky Reach Dam have no other place to go besides Lake Wenatchee! I guess they don’t think that anyone will really pay attention to the numbers! Even if they do end up opening the season you will see that they don’t give us a quota near what the run is! This is so they can get the money out of people then cut the fishery short. In the last two Sockeye seasons on Lake Wenatchee, there have not been near 10,000 fish caught! I believe in 2004 there were aprox. 7,000 fish harvested in a month long season! So, you watch, we might get a 2,000 to 3,000 fish quota…just long enough to get us through the first weekend and part of a week! That way they will get there money to waste from the westsiders that didn’t get a fishery this year!!
July 29th, 2008 at 11:00 amAlso, why are we even raising Sockeye salmon for the Lake Wenatchee system??? Is it to feed the Bull Trout population that is endangered everywhere else in the state yet over run in our system??? Or is it to feed the thousands of Squawfish that sit under the net pens waiting of an easy meal!! This lake is filled with salmon destroying populations of fish that the game department is not managing! Maybe this is just to waste money that could be used somewhere else!! Another point to this waste is the Coho salmon run that the Wenatchee river system returned last year! These Coho are all hatchery raised fish that our tax dollars go to raise. Last year there were 12,414 Coho salmon returning to the Wenatchee river system….Why was there no fishery for these fish?!?! Guess the department didn’t realize anyone was watching the counts!
Maybe it is time to show the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife that we the public are watching them! And just maybe they need to realize that we the taxpayers are the ones that are paying there checks!!
I stopped in and asked one of the workers at the dam Sunday and he said that we were over 23,000.
I think that we are in good shape!
August 4th, 2008 at 4:38 pmJust got off the phone with WDFWL in Wenatchee. They’ve applied to Olympia to open the season, perhaps as soon as tomorrow 8/6! Call 662-0452 for an after hours recording to confirm. See you this weekend!
August 5th, 2008 at 2:10 pm