I was a bit worried about this. High Fish Prices and high expectations seem to lead to a hammering of the resources. I have been hearing reports of how hard tribal fisherman were hitting the fish of the coast, then watched as 5 or more boats were hitting it in the sound, where I have never seen a boat before.

Then, a failure of Hoodsport and the Nisqually to get any numbers back. I travel quite a bit, and stopped by the Skok to throw eggs a few times. The numbers appeared to be very low there too.

I am wondering if these fish were intercepted off the coast when they were looking for Colombia River fish? Is there anyway to be certain that they are fishing over the right stocks and not wiping out a different run?

With what appears to be fairly good Ocean Conditions, does anyone have any Idea why these runs, one on the Canal and one in the South Sound, had such low returns compared to forecasts?