Especially when you consider that many Wild Chinook, like those in the Skokomish and greater Hood Canal, likely have zero genetics from the aboriginal fish in that river and are bastardized fish from the Green and other watersheds. While “Wild” in the sense of being born in the gravel, it makes you wonder if any fish remaining have the original genetic makeup that evolved specific to that river over millions of years.

Shutting down winter blackmouth in the HC is another example of shutting down a fishery due to constraining stocks such as the mid-HC rivers.