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Originally posted by AuntyM:
Grandpa,

I wish we knew how many steelhead and salmon are caught in the ocean. It might explain the low returns of either hatchery or nate runs when the bio's predicted much better returns.

Our reaction is always the same on this board. If it's hatchery run return, then hoards like to claim it's because of the inferiority of hatchery fish. If it's a nate run, it was because those horrible hatchery fish out "competed" for food etc...

So do we know if salmon from the same run spread out over thousands of miles? Or do they stay within a hundred or so miles of each other, where a heavy concentration of fishing is occuring. It would explain a lot if that were the case.