An interesting aspect of the recovery will be if sockeye don't do well but the kokanee do. The lake shows the potential to grow smolts, but then the don't survive.

We are seeing the same sort of thing in the Cedar, and maybe other streams, with steelhead. Mykiss, like nerka, appear to be optionally anadromous in response to environmental conditions. If conditions in the ocean are "bad" the successful spawners are those that stay home. Some always go down to the sea, but until conditions improve their significant fecundity advantage is lost.

How will the managers respond when nature tells them that resident is the choice?