Open Net Fish Farming in The Strait of Juan de Fuca 2017

[Riverjohn]

Add Gill-Nets in the Columbia River. The very last "River" allowing salmon gill-nets.

Nope. The Willapa has non-tribal commercial gill netting. The Chehalis has Quinault tribal commercial gill netting. Not sure but I think the Chehalis also has non-tribal commercial gill netting too.

The Commercial gill-nets if I remember right are at the mouth of the river only aren't they ?

 

[AstoriaDave]

Riverjohn, is your question regarding areas of allowed gill net fishing for salmon directed at the Columbia, or those other rivers?

On the main stem Columbia, there are 6 zones from Bonneville Dam to the mouth which are used, not all of them open simultaneously, usually. These are fished by nonnatives, historically. Above Bonneville, only gillnetting by natives is allowed, various zones, with closures varying from season to season.

The use of other techniques, in particular tangle nets, is in flux, owing to the breakdown of the compact between OR, WA, and ID. Some testing of seine nets by ODFW has been made, but seines are not sanctioned anywhere on the Columbia, AFAIK.

Openings and closures for gill netting are typically announced in various media outlets, and on the ODFW web site.

 

[Riverjohn]

Riverjohn, is your question regarding areas of allowed gill net fishing for salmon directed at the Columbia, or those other rivers?

On the main stem Columbia, there are 6 zones from Bonneville Dam to the mouth which are used, not all of them open simultaneously, usually. These are fished by nonnatives, historically. Above Bonneville, only gillnetting by natives is allowed, various zones, with closures varying from season to season.

The use of other techniques, in particular tangle nets, is in flux, owing to the breakdown of the compact between OR, WA, and ID. Some testing of seine nets by ODFW has been made, but seines are not sanctioned anywhere on the Columbia, AFAIK.

Openings and closures for gill netting are typically announced in various media outlets, and on the ODFW web site.

I was asking about the WA rivers. I am anti gill-net when it come to inland rivers. Seen too much in my time fishing the Columbia. The biggest issue being dead Native steelhead. I hope our Governor (Kate Brown) pays a very big political price for backing out of the gill-net reform agreement. She has a financial interest in helping Pacific Seafood... Bad scenario, you will hear more soon.