Didn't "Digger" Phelps essentially prove that the Puyallup Coho were shrunken in size due to successive years of selecting the larger fish by gillnetting? Doesn't this harvest of any salmonid by continually taking the larger specimens theoretically apply?

Many years ago, the hatcheries selected the largest fish available for spawning. I think that practice was terminated years later by a mandate to take fish across the size spectrum. Don't know what the practice is now.