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A.A.Ron 17 hours ago
Yes, potentially, but there are lots of extra salmon in the river. Alaska Fish & Game counts every fish that gets 19 miles up the river with a sonar. All commerical fishing and most sport fishing takes place downstream from there. They manage the commercial, sport fishing and personal use harvest based on those counts to ensure enough fish spawn to sustain the population. If the numbers are low they reduce bag limits and fishing hours and vice versa. Their escapement goal is 750,000 - 1.3 million fish. Last year, the escapment was 4.2 million fish that's after 4+ million fish were harvested.

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Impatiens 17 hours ago
You trust that they actually know what they are doing and not just selling licenses to support their always increased staffing needs and provide the desired data to whatever politician is in charge (with fudge factor)? Hey wait, is that the charlie and the chocolate factory reference?
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A.A.Ron 17 hours ago
They seem to know what they're doing, more or less. There are a lot of people watching and keeping them honest. At any rate, me eating 30 out of 8 million salmon isn't going to make a lick of difference in the grand scheme of things.