Fisheries and journalism almost always are a poor mix; that is, if journalism is about accuracy. Each of those redds may contain around 5,000 eggs, but the number of emergent fry in the spring is unlikely to more than 1,500 from each redd at best, and quite possibly only half that number. Still, it's important and a significant contribution, but hey, I'm just here to help try and keep it real.

Now if they added the probable smolt mortality at each of the nine dams the juveniles must pass to get downstream of Bonneville, well, that would tell an even more important, and accurate, story.

Sg