NOAA also ignored the effect of fishing on adult sizes. According to Ricker, and others who looked at it, Chinook may have lost up to half their adult size and a couple years of age. All due to fishing.

In NOAA's analysis, at least the one they did about 10 years ago, they looked at the last couple years' of data, completely ignoring decades of information. Their conlusion was that fishing had no affect on adult size.