Kevin,

Hate to burst your bubble about the Raft, but according to a QIN bio, it's been stocked with hatchery fish and is gillnetted by the Tribe. And its watershed has been logged just like all the others. Nothing pure about it.

NW Steel,

Ocean distribution of steelhead is better understood than your post assumes. Steelhead are caught on the high seas, but they are not targeted because they are not a schooling fish. Steelhead do not have the same ocean migration path as salmon, and different steelhead stocks have differing migrations. At that point our understanding of steelhead ocean migrations becomes sparse. The best estimate of high seas steelhead catch that I've seen produced a "high" estimate of 3% of North American steelhead, and that was when the high seas drift nets - which have mostly disappeared now - were considered a serious problem.

Sg