Originally Posted By: Lifter99
I see that it looks like there will be no spring chinook fishing Juneau this year. The spring run in the Taku is in the tank. I have friends who live there and fish that run every year. The run has been dropping every year.


"The worst statistic of all for the Taku is that for nine of the past 12 years, the total return to the river has been less than the parent year escapement. The stock cannot even replace itself, and appears to be on a one-way slide to extirpation, not recovery."

https://www.juneauempire.com/opinion/opinion-a-pessimists-view-of-taku-river-king-salmon

When a stock is no longer capable of replacing its parental brood, the mathematical trajectory does NOT bode well... it's functionally extinct!

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