“ back. That's just how the state of things are these days. Yes, there were decent runs of wild steelhead during the 70s and 80s, just like most other PS rivers. But they are all gone from all the rivers now. And it's because marine survival rates have crashed. The causes range from too many harbor seals and sea lions in PS, poor coastal upwelling conditions some years, the "blob" in coastal ocean waters, changing ocean surface temperatures on the high seas, changes in the forage composition on those same high seas, and who knows what else that scientists have yet to figure out. And if there's any upside to any of this, it's that WDFW is not to blame for it and couldn't change it if they tried or wanted to.“

Seals, sea lions, whatever. Eating returning fish, or smolts, coming in, going out. My point stands. And for the rest of your opionion, blobs, water warming, then cooling, ( like El Niño and his sister wasn’t happening from the first daze folks started fishing here in this area.) It’s just another opined excuse that a lot folks still sow seeds for.

Now, it’ll be too many pinks, or chums eating all the available food, then it’s the Russians, then it’s the next whatever you can’t prove excuse.

Sad really...

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