According to WDFW's SCORE site the Cedar steelhead escapements took a dramatic down turn at the start of this century. Since 2007 the escapements have been less than 10 fish/year (from 0 to 8).

Some think that with the very poor marine survivals the last couple decades for the region's steelhead that the O.mykiss population of the Cedar is being dominated by fluvial (river run) and ad fluvial (lake run) life histories rather than the anadromous life history. The big question will if (when?) marine survivals improve how quickly the anadromous life history becomes established.

Curt