Maybe not on the coast where still to this day most of the rivers are flooded with hatchery smolt plants and massive amounts of straying occurs. In other places where hatchery smolt plants have been extremely reduced or eliminated it's showing native numbers rebounding and in some places exceeding escapement. But I get the greed of the almighty steelhead fisherman, nothing better than a chambers creek brat for an epic battle and table fare...

Stop planting the hatchery steelhead and the natives will return.

But as Illahee would say, I'm just an arm chair biologist and I don't know [Bleeeeep!]....

Keith