Bob Hooten, steelhead bio up in BC, has been making some comments on Thompson/Fraser steelhead issues, which Canada is dealing with just as well as we are.

Anyway, he asks why the Cowichan Chinook and steelhead are both doing rather well, thank you, when there are hordes of pinnipeds around them. The steelhead, especially, are an earlier returning group that are in the stream before the big chum net fisheries hit.