As many of you know the winter chinook fishery aka blackmouth has been closed again to preserve some of the quota for a later opener once the massive amounts of out-migrating sub-legals are no longer present.
In this video, I show footage of our successful blackmouth fishing trip before it closed down, but I also try to deep dive on what's going on with this fishery, why it aways closes so fast and question what the future should look like.
I take us back into the history of Puget Sound blackmouth a little bit, looking at the yearling chinook program and why we are where we are with this fishery.
Does it make sense to continue to advocate for this season to open in January or even in February? Perhaps, it should only open in the future after the sub-legals largely leave the area?
This video is on the shorter side and walks through graphs and data along with footage of our fishing trip to try and get to the bottom of this issue.
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