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Originally Posted by dakota560
I think they've estimated 15% to 20% of the king salmon returning to the Salmon River are from natural reproduction. Doesn't surprise me one bit based on the amount of salmon on reds in the upper end of the river.
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This is a few years old, I'm looking for some more recent data but this should help answer the question, from the NY DEC website...
" In 2012, preliminary results indicated that 56% of the Chinook salmon harvested in New York waters of Lake Ontario were wild. The proportion of wild Chinook salmon observed in most New York tributaries varied by fish age but was generally low (i.e., 5-20%), except in the Salmon River, where approximately 70% of angler-caught Chinook salmon were wild."
Found some newer data...
" Percentages of wild Chinook salmon in Lake Ontario varied by year class and age and
among regions from 2009-2014, but overall, wild Chinook were an important
component of the Lake Ontario fishery averaging 47% of the age 2 and 3 lake harvest."
