http://www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com/2009/sockeye-2009-opening-day/ News, Photos, Information about Lake Wenatchee, Plain and Fish Lake in Washington State Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:37:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com/2009/sockeye-2009-opening-day/comment-page-1/#comment-367 tangotw Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:44:13 +0000 http://www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com/?p=1201#comment-367 So I have a question, hopefully someone will have an answer for it, maybe Rollie. This year's sockeye season... they said they needed 23,000 fish.. plus a surplus of 4,000 fish to open a season. But they opened it before they had even gotten the minimum requirement??? Now, due to some weird die off or something... when I just checked the Tumwater dam count, only 15,000+ fish had crossed the dam total this year, when they estimated that 30,000 would make the trip. They estimate that about 2,000+ salmon were caught during the season... so that means only about 13,000 fish really made it back to spawn this year. Is it just me, or is this a royal mess up? Shouldn't someone be losing his/her job over opening the season before making sure the season had enough fish etc? It seems like we could all be in for a rude awakening 4 years from now, when there isn't a season because not enough fish spawned. Anyone? So I have a question, hopefully someone will have an answer for it, maybe Rollie. This year’s sockeye season… they said they needed 23,000 fish.. plus a surplus of 4,000 fish to open a season. But they opened it before they had even gotten the minimum requirement??? Now, due to some weird die off or something… when I just checked the Tumwater dam count, only 15,000+ fish had crossed the dam total this year, when they estimated that 30,000 would make the trip. They estimate that about 2,000+ salmon were caught during the season… so that means only about 13,000 fish really made it back to spawn this year. Is it just me, or is this a royal mess up? Shouldn’t someone be losing his/her job over opening the season before making sure the season had enough fish etc? It seems like we could all be in for a rude awakening 4 years from now, when there isn’t a season because not enough fish spawned. Anyone?

]]> http://www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com/2009/sockeye-2009-opening-day/comment-page-1/#comment-356 RONMOSS Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:02:49 +0000 http://www.lakewenatcheeinfo.com/?p=1201#comment-356 Where did you fillet or clean your catch? Where did you fillet or clean your catch?

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