Originally Posted By: Carcassman
If most PS habitat is poor, how come pinks and chums-who spawn in the same places as Chinook but have shallower redds more prone to scour and go to see upon emergence are doing well? The two worst estuariies are supposed to be Elliott and Commencement bays; put the pink and chum do well there.

If the FW habitat is so poor, how come the native char-bull trout/Dolly varden and anadromous cutthroat are showing strong increases in numbers? The anadromous forms will rear for a couple years in FW (like coho, steelhead, and spring Chinook) and they go out into the same bays.

That does leave the ocean as the place where habitat sucks.


Your argument is with the prevailing science, and it says for the most part OP and PS in stream habitat is poor.
So how would anyone conclude that it's not the leading factor for recovery?
FYI a fishing pole isn't a research tool, you can't gain any fisheries science knowledge using one.