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Klamath/Trinity - Hot Sheet Report on Gillnetting 15 Years, 10 Months ago  
A friend passed along the current week's "Hot Sheet". In this is a report on gillnetting on the Klamath and Trinty Rivers and the impact to the current year's runs. Tragic news for these fragile fisheries.

"Trinity and Klamath River Reports from Mike Aughney

Tribal gillnets are literally wiping out the entire 2009 Trinity salmon
run. It's bad enough the salmon have to make it through one gauntlet on
the Lower Klamath but it's the second set of nets at the Hoopa
reservation that in inflicting the biggest toll on the percentage of
fish making their way to the spawning grounds.

For the week ending October 21st only 26 salmon were counted at the
Willow Creek weir on the main stem Trinity. But it gets worse. At a
time of year that should be the peak of the run with 100s of fish
making it through daily only 86 adult king salmon have been counted at
the Willow Creek weir since October 1st.

86 salmon in three weeks on a major river system? What a pathetic
count.
We received reports on Tuesday from an "insider" at Hoopa who counted
45 nets in the river along the reservation. None were being attended
and the word from this insider was that counts of as high as 85 salmon
per net were taken that day. Some of the nets are completely across the
river allowing ZERO escapement.

With individual tribal nets taking more salmon in a single day than the
entire past three week's escapement is a travesty. Tribal gillnetting
is wiping out the run before our eyes and yet no one from the tribes,
Fish and Game, USFWS, or PFMC are batting an eye. The only ones who are
raising the alarm are being ignored, local sport anglers and guides.
Even if the state or the feds did step in at this point the damage has
been done. The lower salmon escapement goal for the Trinity will fall
some 90% short this year and come 2012 we will again see no or low in
river quotas and closures along the Cal and Oregon coasts. The Yurok's
and Hoopa's do a great job at pretending to be "stewards of the river"
when in fact their non traditional netting practices are doing far more
harm to this fishery than the dams. Come 2012 there are sure to be
tribal members out there claiming how they can't "fed their poor" or
how the dams have "ruined their traditional fisheries". The truth will
be that there won't be enough salmon returning to support any take....
sport, tribal or other because tribal gillnets had raped the river
clean years prior. The truth is in the numbers and we are working on a
story that will show that tribal gillnetting has been one of the
biggest factors, larger than dams to the demise of the Klamath and
Trinity fisheries."


“Those who are most aware of the declining health of natural systems
must be the ones to sound the alarm. They must be willing to take a
stand. Some biologists are reluctant to vigorously defend sound
practices in the treatment of the earth because they feel that their
jobs, funding, and perhaps even their lives may be threatened, as
indeed they may. Even so, if those who understand freshwater [or
other] systems best, and are most aware of their inestimable value to
mankind are not to be advocates, then there will be little effective
advocacy."
 
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Re:Klamath/Trinity - Hot Sheet Report on Gillnetting 15 Years, 10 Months ago  
What a travesty.

But just one note of caution. I used to work closely with the tribes while a district ranger at Happy Camp on the Klamath River. Some, I would even venture to say most tribal members, really are serious stewards of the resources, especially the fisheries. But as in any population there are those who behave irresponsibly and even a bunch of outlaws. No shortage of them in that neighborhood.

Lets hope the tribes can do a better job of regulating their own. They should get it. They rely on the river resources more than any of us.
 
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Re:Klamath/Trinity - Hot Sheet Report on Gillnetting 15 Years, 10 Months ago  
Phil,

You are a pearl and true savior of the resource young man! Let's see if the Living Legend has this straight.... One of your buddies has his own website and he just heard that someone.... and not just one of those clueless, inept, bobber chucking bait fisherman in denial who is always getting in Senor Shepherd the Great's way thinking they're gonna rack up "Shepherd-like" bodycounts of sore lipped fish by "low-holing" the Living Legend, but a bonified and experienced fisheries professional mind you, who saw 45+ untended nets strung all the way across the river who elects to call your beloved buddy, and not the tribal authorities whose job it is to stop such abuse? Outfrigginstanding young man! Should you come across a slightly more plausible report, from a slightly more credible source than your buddy (say for instance the National Enquirer should report that Elvis, Bruce Lee, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster were all spotted climbing out of their UFO with a huge harpoon gun, started blasting fish outta the water, and BBQing their "catch" on the gravel bar, when the legendary Kamoss surfaced nearby and decided to punish the aforementioned offenders for their abuse of the resource by swallowing the sasquatch whole, biting half of Bruce's johnson off (effectively making Bruce Lee become Bruce Weewee), chewing Nessie's adipose fin off subjecting her to catch and kill take, but that "Elvis left the Building" prior to his punishment being handed out and that a volunteer lynch mob is needed to administer punishment...) you let the flock know young man! The Shepherd will instantaneously summon the Minions of the truth and we'll go and "Crown the King" until his brains fall out!

The Shepherd

PS- Maybe you should call your buddy up and inform him that he should change the name of his "Hotsheet" report to something more appropriate like "The Cold Turds BS" Report
 
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Re:Klamath/Trinity - Hot Sheet Report on Gillnetting 15 Years, 10 Months ago  
Shep,

This is a report published via email widely to many in the state. It primarily caters to the bait dunking crowd. Trinity and Klamath river fishing reports are routinely covered. The source of the Trinity report is noted at the top of my post, Mike Aughney. My "buddy", just happens to be one of the subscribers who forwarded the entire report to me. I excerpted just the note from Mike Aughney, the author of this portion of the "Hot Sheet". It is one man's opinion. Given the interest in these watersheds on this board, I elected to share this info. You can read and draw you own opinion. The data from the Willow Creek Wier speaks for itself. That is published data, and can be verified. Pretty sad to see that few fish returning for whatever reason.

Perhaps you can shed some of that magical light on the subject and fix the problem??
 
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Article on the Trinity Salmon Runs and Gillnetting 15 Years, 10 Months ago  
 
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