It's amazing what happens when you actually mark, and the recover, fish. There was a big tagging study done on chum, a while ago, when fish were tagged in area 10E. This is the East Kitsap inlets and it is considered the terminal area for chum that spawn in the local creeks. A bunch of the tagged fish (tagged as adults) were recovered at the Hoodsport Hatchery. They had come into 9, gone to 10, got tagged in 10E, went back to 10, then 9, down 12 and on to the hatchery.

As we put out more tags, especially the acoustic types that don't need a dead fish to check, we find that the fish are doing a whole lot of stuff that (according to the books the fish don't read but we do) that really messes up preconceived notions.

As to the White Rivers, you will remember that the Makah troll fishery took a lot of them in that "big" year.