Hmmm, I just noticed something in this thread.

Carrying capacity is greatly diminished in the Snohomish system overall.

The largest wild coho escapements in the last 40 years have occurred in the last 5 years.

The decline of the wild steelhead run has reached a critical state, resulting in the ending of the popular Sky C&R season 4 or 5 years ago.

Could there be a correlation between the extreme abundance of wild coho smolts and apparent lack of wild steelhead smolts, (competition) considering the fact that they share a fairly similar early life history?
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