Cliff notes on this: Etiology of declining steelhead runs actually pretty complicated.

We love simple correlations, cause-effect, makes for a good story, makes us sound smart when we say it's simple-stupid, but doesn't apply to wild steelhead as a species.

Every basin is literally a whole different ball of wax, and merits its own study and set of solutions. I wish humanity cared enough to unwrap it and attack it, but too costly and inconvenient,

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