I have been told that there is no agreed upon methodology for estimating the run size of fish in the Nooksack River. This is only a guestimate and they freely admit it. I still believe that flying over the South Fork and North Fork in April and May with the snowmelt (especially this year) is a joke. One guy counting redds in the whole basin is a joke. I do not believe that the wild steelhead population is severly threatened.