Carol W
2012-05-14 15:17:01
Well all the Chum guys will be interested to know that Chum Salmon was the secret ingredient on Food Networks Iron chef the other night. They even used the skin to make a desert, the chums looked of decent quality and the chefs did a good job of talking the fish up.
Tom
Salty
2012-05-14 15:54:17
Wow, thanks Tom!! They are a wonderful fish, particularly troll caught brite ones. Too bad the fishery doesn't have more room so we are not crowded like sardines in tin can.
Carol W
2012-05-14 15:58:43
That will change as time goes on Eric we just have to keep pushing the envelope and looking at other sites to fish in and yes more proposals to the BOF.
Tom
yak2you2
2012-05-14 18:58:23
Petition those in power to help support the expansion westward. There is lots of room, and a plan is coming together, but it's going to take funding.
steffco
2012-05-18 05:35:25
How far west you talking Yak?
IMHO permits hould be state wide and then close certain areas of concern like cook inlet ,way to many politics there.
Do Not issue or convert permits just spread out the fishing room for the ones already in place.
Just letting trollers catch 50% 0f the traditional bycatch kings from the GOA would kep quite a few familys in new socks once the draggers get serious about reducing their bycatch.
Salty
2012-10-11 18:18:15
I was just re-reading some of the posts. Looks like my comment last May about being crowded into areas like "like sardines in a tin can" for the chum trolling was quite prophetic this year.
I am unusually discouraged about the future of the troll fishery in SE Alaska. With the 15% reduction in the Treaty Chinook quota, stagnant coho prices (we got more for coho in 1979 than we did this year) and the crowding in the few chum patches, I am not seeing a very brite future.
Two of my good friends on the Chum Trollers Association Board of Directors (I am no longer on the Board) have purchased gillnet permits and plan to enter that fishery.
On the brite side, NSRAA staff is aggressively pursuing new hatchery development in the Icy Strait area and we will have more area on the Admiralty shore to target chums next year.
Also, on the brite side, it appears that for sale signs are sprouting like mushrooms on the trollers in the Sitka Harbors.
I am not fishing today because my exhaust rebuild has gone longer than expected.
End of the summer season blues have arrived.