Sad, frustrating, disappointing, and entirely predictable.......

There are very few, if any, intensive fisheries on Chinook salmon that have not resulted in the serious depeltion of the stock. Sometimes it happens quickly, sometime it happens slowly. But it happens. The Kenai is no different. It's also happening on several rivers on Kodiak Island, and the Yukon River. Pehaps we can chalk it up to "ocean conditions" but this pattern has been repeated throughout the history of Atlantic and Pacific salmon and the fisheries that focus on them. I'm optimistic the stocks will rebound, but the real question is when, and whether they will return to their former abundance. Time will tell.