OK...I'm not armed with reams of data and links to hatchery counts but it seems pretty obvious to me the majority of the 2salt hatchery brats on the OP, in the Puget Sound and Columbia tributaries aren't coming.

I've heard rumblings that an abnormally low ratio of 2salt native fish are being caught on OP and Skagit tribs. Purely third hand information but I want to suppose that is true for the purposes of this thread. Campbell River tribs appear to be affected as well...

If this years 2salt run were heavily depressed across that wide of a region and across the hatchery/native lines even....wouldn't that be indicative of some sort of cataclysmic failure in Ocean conditions?

If not...what then?