Good Im glad I got things going on this.

Habitat, I do not buy it not for a minute. If the fish are there they will find a way.

Many of the Alaska and BC rivers that have huge fish runs have terrible natural habitat. Super high water flows at times massive amouts of sitation from glaciers and erosion from the freeze and thaw every year. And last but not least most of the maninland rivers are frozen 5 months out of the year and this is
when the young fry and smolt are in the river. Cant be much to eat and not very favorable
conditions.

And about to many dead fish decaying taking away all the oxogen. Well heres the answer to that question.

My cousin guides on this river and is there every year. On a humpy year he says that dead humpies are three feet deep twenty feet wide on the river banks of both sides on all twenty miles of river. At the mouth of the river the dead humpies are stacked every where for a few miles in both directions. Every rock in the river is stacked with half a dozen humpies infront of it. every branch or snag in the river is covered with humpies. Every year the lake is full of dead sockey as well as the banks covered with near a million dead sockey.

All of these dead fish dont smell good but they are the key to the 3 million fish production.

We down here have much more favorable conditions for the fish.

Habitat is a good copout for over harvest. If the fish were there they would find a way.

Ya the bad habitat isnt used by the fish to spawn in. Well maybe because most of our rivers have so few fish compared to what they should have the fish that are there get the very best habitat due to lack of compitition.

In the river on Kodiak I describes every squar inch of the river is used for spawning good and bad habitat. Fish spawn ontop of each other 3 and 4 times. And yes 600,000 sockey or so spawn in the lake but all the rest of the fish spawn in the river.