They say there must be a balance on how many salmon there are harvested and how many actually ever reach their spawning grounds, is too many fish really a bad thing?

There was talks that DFO is worried that since this Fraser Sockeye run is so big that the spawning grounds will be too cluttered, is that why there was such a big clean up fishery on the Port Alberni Sockeye when they hit their escapement goal this year?

But damn either our neighbors to the north stopped laying waste to our sockeye runs or there is some crazy awesome conditions for salmon survival out there right now because alot of stocks from all the species especially the alberni/fraser sockeye are coming back in at near or record breaking numbers.

I don't know how it's biologically impossible for the fraser run to be at 25,000,000 respectively as I don't know the escapement numbers back in 2006, and the late run sockeye has been bumped to 15,000,000 and is the highest since 1913.

All in all very good news for once .

Too bad my alberni chinook have been beat up the last 7 years by the commercial's but I see there are no expected openings and nor will there be until another 7 years when this run returns?

I don't buy it at all, are you telling me that 500 years ago the fraser sockeye run was only 15.0 million fish(insert any present day figure) - they must have been enormous before man developed Canada.

I guess there is less good spawning ground now but then the problem wouldn't be too many fish but habitat destruction - maybe they should stop taking gravel out of the fraser.

Besides all that, DFO science is constantly wrong so why would be choose to believe that nugget when we know they are usually out to lunch.

I just wonder how this plays into the fish farm debate, obviously they didn't kill all our sockeye for this run.