Originally Posted By: Carcassman
My bet is we will blow it in '22. With lots of "harvestable" there will be pressure to kill them all rather than put in a buffer. Last year's really hot spell will come back to bite us in the *ss.

If we're talking coho, the heat wave this past summer would have killed smolts destined for outmigration in the spring of 2022, and returning as adults in the fall of 2023. That's the year to be worried.

Jack returns in 2022 will be very telling as it regards freshwater survival in 2021.
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