I fear there importance tp our fisheries is yet to be realised.I know the canal runs have been slautered the last ten years.I wonder what effect not having the carcasses fertilizing our rivers and streams is truly going to be.The smolt in the spring supply an important food source on there way out to our oceans.I also fear that they are a huge food source out in our oceans.They reproduce low in our systems.They have to be able to withstand our high water events.I think they do this with large numbers spawning every year.Now that we do not have the high numbers spawning I fear we may actually see a major collapse and our fisheries finally shut down.There saving grace is it is so easy to subsidise there numbers with breeder boxes stream side.

The Rodney Dangerfield of our fisheries I am afraid is truly a prince charming.
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With the population ballooning out of control, there
are bound to be more and more fishermen clogging up our rivers. All of
these fishermen have one thing in common: They come to the Olympic
Peninsula seeking solitude.”
Pat Neal