Originally Posted By: SBD
Bio Buddy of mine attended one the preseason forecast meetings. He said they had like 17 different models that showed a run from 100,000 to 1,000,000..Since they couldn't agree they just met in the middle.


There were 7 models, which generated numbers from 366,000 - 528,000.

Jack counts were 4X higher than ever previously recorded, thus were seen as an statistical outlier, and they went further, to include optimal conditions for both outmigrating smolt, and juveniles in the ocean.

That's where the 470K came from...
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