06-01-2018, 12:44 AM
Most of the fish released as five to six inch salmon last year won't return until 2020. Ocean conditions when this years fish were released were really short of krill due to a warming condition called the blob that was present when they were juveniles. Those conditions have improved. Salmon are very slow growing as fry with these fish being released already two year old progeny of 2016 adults. It takes almost a year to get the fry to 2 inches in length. The wild fish detected by the pit tags were inserted when these fish were collected by the rolling bins in small streams and implanted when they were already a year old and they don't go out to the ocean until the following year.
There is a harvest share of around 2000 fish for the Clearwater and likely less than 900 for the entire Rapid River run. Check the news release on the Fish and Game website under Chinook for May 30th (yesterday) and it shows the Harvest share for the Clearwater back to 2000 and the Rapid River through from 96 to the present. Predicted fish for the south fork Clearwater, North Fork, Snake and Selway are laid out based on the latest pit tags over Bonneville. Worst run on Rapid River in 20 years with half the fish as last year.
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There is a harvest share of around 2000 fish for the Clearwater and likely less than 900 for the entire Rapid River run. Check the news release on the Fish and Game website under Chinook for May 30th (yesterday) and it shows the Harvest share for the Clearwater back to 2000 and the Rapid River through from 96 to the present. Predicted fish for the south fork Clearwater, North Fork, Snake and Selway are laid out based on the latest pit tags over Bonneville. Worst run on Rapid River in 20 years with half the fish as last year.
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