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KLAMATH QUOTA MAY FALL
DFG News
1/19/02
REDDING--The Department of Fish and Game said today it expects to propose reductions in the basin quota and daily bag limit for adult fall-run king salmon fishing this year on the Klamath-Trinity river system.
The DFG's Region 1 office said the agency will submit the recommendations to the state Fish and Game Commission at the commission's Saturday, Feb. 9, meeting in Sacramento. Public proposals also must reach the commission by Feb. 9.
Organizations or individuals interested in suggesting changes in the Klamath-Trinity salmon regulations may submit them in writing to the commission at 1416 Ninth Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, or during the Feb. 9 meeting, set to begin at 8:30 a.m. at the same Ninth Street address.
Commissioners will listen to public comment on the subject during a meeting March 8 in San Diego. On April 25, after guidelines are established by the Pacific Fishery Management Council, the commission will adopt the new state regulations.
As in past years, the DFG and commission are planning to conduct public input meetings prior to the April 25 regulations adoption. The meetings are expected to be held in March in Weaverville and Crescent City.
Biologists in Region 1 said they anticipate a drop in the number of fall chinook salmon entering the Klamath basin this year after a contemporary record spawning run in 2000 and a near-record migration last fall. Various data from last year will be run through a computer model to help set this year's quota and other rules, the DFG said.
The Fish and Game Commission last year adopted a sport fishing quota of 29,800 adult king salmon for the Klamath-Trinity, the highest quota ever for the river system. The daily bag limit was three salmon, two of them adults over 22 inches.
As recently as 1998, predictions of a small spawning run resulted in a basin quota of only 1,800 salmon and a daily bag limit of one adult fish.
One indicator used to help predict run size is the number of two-year-old "jack" salmon that enter a river system each year as forerunners of the larger adult fish hatched during the same brood year. Jack salmon numbers were very high in the two years prior to the heavy adult salmon runs of 2000 and 2001--and substantially lower in 2001.
DFG News
1/19/02
REDDING--The Department of Fish and Game said today it expects to propose reductions in the basin quota and daily bag limit for adult fall-run king salmon fishing this year on the Klamath-Trinity river system.
The DFG's Region 1 office said the agency will submit the recommendations to the state Fish and Game Commission at the commission's Saturday, Feb. 9, meeting in Sacramento. Public proposals also must reach the commission by Feb. 9.
Organizations or individuals interested in suggesting changes in the Klamath-Trinity salmon regulations may submit them in writing to the commission at 1416 Ninth Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, or during the Feb. 9 meeting, set to begin at 8:30 a.m. at the same Ninth Street address.
Commissioners will listen to public comment on the subject during a meeting March 8 in San Diego. On April 25, after guidelines are established by the Pacific Fishery Management Council, the commission will adopt the new state regulations.
As in past years, the DFG and commission are planning to conduct public input meetings prior to the April 25 regulations adoption. The meetings are expected to be held in March in Weaverville and Crescent City.
Biologists in Region 1 said they anticipate a drop in the number of fall chinook salmon entering the Klamath basin this year after a contemporary record spawning run in 2000 and a near-record migration last fall. Various data from last year will be run through a computer model to help set this year's quota and other rules, the DFG said.
The Fish and Game Commission last year adopted a sport fishing quota of 29,800 adult king salmon for the Klamath-Trinity, the highest quota ever for the river system. The daily bag limit was three salmon, two of them adults over 22 inches.
As recently as 1998, predictions of a small spawning run resulted in a basin quota of only 1,800 salmon and a daily bag limit of one adult fish.
One indicator used to help predict run size is the number of two-year-old "jack" salmon that enter a river system each year as forerunners of the larger adult fish hatched during the same brood year. Jack salmon numbers were very high in the two years prior to the heavy adult salmon runs of 2000 and 2001--and substantially lower in 2001.
