Thought I would add this bit. Hatcheries bypass the natural order by spawning and rearing to smolt so hatchery Jack totals can be up but not so the natural production. The natural production is subjected to all things natural that can reduce the numbers of naturally produced smolt. Simply put the hatchery production can show a banner year with Jacks but the natural production not so much if things went bad in spawning, over wintering, over summering and other things. So all the hatchery Jack totals say is out migration and first months in the salt Coho did well.
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Dazed and confused.............the fog is closing in