This discussion took off in a slightly different direction on the AK board…

http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/show...l=1#post1353238

Regardless of who wants to blame who for the most precise and proximate cause, it's clear that the environment/conditions to which these kings are subjected in UCI is NOT conducive to their survival to the next life-stage…. inriver spawner.

Seems to me the fish did just fine traversing lower Cook Inlet. It wasn't until they encountered the gillnet fleet concentrated in front of the Kenai/Kasilof river mouths that any fish perished.
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