This has been a really weird year from what I have been reading. Returns seem to be really stock specific as some sockeye boomed (Kenai) and others crashed. Fraser pinks have been downgraded by half and I haven't heard about PS but there's lots of some stocks out there.

I remember from Grad School that Doc Donaldson's trout program crashed in one year. Inbreeding caught up and when they picked eggs it was easier to pick the few live. We may have reached that stock specific tipping point where, for example, the western AK Chinook are finally showing the effects of trawl while other stocks are showing the effects of pink hatcheries, and so on. Down here, poor summer flows, poor escapements, and changes in ocean food sources may be acting.

Or, as the late Lloyd Phinney said, they're all hiding under the Continental Shelf.