The entire Western WA region was anticipating strong coho returns based on nearshore trawls assessing juvenilke abundance in the spring of 2018... the fish that should have returned en masse this fall. WRONG AGAIN... as we are all seeing, they're MIA.

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Researchers “documented one of the highest densities of juvenile salmon off the coast we’d ever seen” in spring 2018, Phillips said. “Lo and behold, we didn’t see the return anticipated” this year when those juveniles were supposed to migrate back to Washington waters as adults in late summer.
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