Last week I was in Cancun (a little warm for salmon) attending the Latin America and Caribbean Fisheries Conference. A very interesting session was about introduced salmonids in South America. Apparently they are getting overrun with WILD Chinook down there. One river in Chile was hosting runs (catch plus escapement) of 17-90K. Does WA even have 90K wild Chinook in total? They believe the numbers in total are significantly higher. They have also found good numbers in Argentina and they are moving into Brazil. As a side note but including hatchery production S America is producing more salmon than AK catches.