Fisheries off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; West Coast Salmon Fisheries; Commercial and Recreational Inseason Adjustments and Reopening from Cape Flattery to Leadbetter Point, WA

NMFS announces the following inseason adjustment: the commercial salmon fishery in the area between Cape Alava to Leadbetter Point, WA, for all salmon except chinook reopened on September 5, 1999, with the suspension of certain gear restrictions and the coho trip limit. The fishery closed on September 13, 1999, and will not reopen until further notification. There were 12,400 coho remaining in the quota when the fishery opened. Earlier in the season the 7,000 chinook quota had been reached and the season was closed. But on September 2, 1999, there was a trade of 1,000 chinook, from the north of Cape Falcon recreational salmon fisheries overall chinook quota, for 2,000 coho from the 14,400 coho remaining in the commercial fishery from Cape Alava to Leadbetter Point, WA. The 2,000 coho traded from the commercial fishery were moved to the Cape Alava to Queets River subarea recreational fishery increasing the coho subarea quota to 4,600 fish. The 1,000 chinook were to be used to cover those chinook mortalities related to chinook hooked and released during the 9-day commercial open period targeting coho. These actions were necessary to conform to the 1999 management measures and were intended to ensure conservation of chinook salmon.