Not sure the runs are great nor big. Lots of hatchery supplementation provide the most "productive" fisheries there too, and the Skamania strain fish don't contribute to the bulk of that. Most huge number days happen in the hatchery zones.

I think on average that there's much more spawning habitat in Washington streams, and the in-stream life of the smolts is probably more dangerous in the GL tribs. However there's no polluted Sound, no ocean predation, no funky climatologic or oceanic fluctuations, no high seas commercial fisheries and no tribal nets to navigate in the GL. Pick yer poison,

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