Photos of a gil net and contents

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lizardman
Here are some shots I took today while fishing behind the Steelhead hatchery in Irrigon of a gil net being pulled in and the net damage to a few fish they threw to guys on the bank (chinook jack, walleye, catfish, and a steelhead not pictured).





















the sturgeon were alive and thrown back into the river.

Dave

p.s. no salmon or steelhead for me today but I did catch a 20+ inch sucker and here is photo proof that I did NOT get skunked and did catch a fish, albeit not one I was targeting

 
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osmosis
boy it looks like they did a number on the sturgeon in that set. Thats too bad..

Pretty cool of them to give you guys their bycatch instead of letting them float away/rot in the river!

What would you guess their overall # of fish in their net was?
 
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lizardman
about 30 salmonids in various length ranges, at least six sturgeon from three to six+ feet in length, one cat, one walleye. And that is not counting the 50+ dead fish that floated out of their net when they were hauling it up.

Dave
 
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Fishtopher
Thats a nice size cat too.

50+.....Bums me out when I hear about stuff like that.

Thanks for the report.
 
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osmosis
Thats too bad they let 50+ go to waste. Those are the kinds of things I'd be getting photo's of!
 
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Troutier Bassier

What a Freaking Waste.
Thats like going to the Store and Buying a Bunch of crap you dont need. and throwing it away.

Did you snag that Sucker? Lol Get it. Sucker.
 
C
Cracker
Do the tribal netters have to follow the same rules as the commercial netters?
 
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lizardman
osmosis said:
Thats too bad they let 50+ go to waste. Those are the kinds of things I'd be getting photo's of!
Click to expand...

I wish I could have but I wasn't at a good angle to get one with the angle of the sun. they just looked like reflections of light on the water.

Dave
 
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lizardman
I forgot to add that I heard yesterday that a couple weeks ago another tribal boat pulling in their nets mutilated a bunch of sturgeon. What they did is slice open the bellies of the sturgeon to remove the eggs and then throw the sturgeon back into the water... What a waste.

Dave
 
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Fishtopher
Words typed through the keyboard can't express my feelings about that....We have all these restrictions when it comes to 'em...barbless hooks, size restrictions, limited seasons and quotas....There is no hatchery program for 'em(and i hope we dont get to the point where anyone thinks we need one)....Yet Kill nets are non descriminate to what size fish gets caught in em, or how many....I think shock value would be the only thing that would really push things in the right direction, faster. Pictures similar to the ones above, only on commercial front, not native. Pictures of said sturgeon with only the eggs taken-floating down river, and of course whatever other dead by-catch that floats up outta the nets.
 
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Anyfishisfine
You know, I'm willing to let them have their special tribal harvest, but it still needs to be responsible, and at the very least not wasteful.

My Dad used to have a saying from when he was a Marine. It was posted in their chow hall: "Take all you want, but eat all you take."
 
T
Troutier Bassier
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T
Troutier Bassier

Anyone know why Your only allowed to keep 5 sturgeon a Year?
 
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halibuthitman
 
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bigfootfish
Kill nets

Kill nets

I agree there has to be a better way.

BFF
 
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