Hatchery Fall Chinook returns appear to be much lower than predicted throughout South Puget Sound, and Hood Canal. Both, the Skok and the Nisqually hatchery complexes are/were in danger of not meeting egg take goals for the first time in year if not decades.
I am not sure how other Puget Sound stocks are fairing, but the quality of the Straits/Seiku Chinook fishery this summer should have prepared us. Did they also go to Canada like the Sockeye? I can hear one Chinook saying to another: "I have had it, I am moving to Canada!"