Suspect the "poor" returns to Tokul Creek were due to lack of smolt plants.

The bulk of Chambers Creek hatchery steelhead return as 2-salt which for this year means from smolt releases in 2015 when no hatchery steelhead smolts were released.

The remainder of the adult hatchery returns would have been as 3-salts with only an estimated 26,000 smolts released in 2014.

From reports across Puget Sound overall hatchery steelhead returns seem to be down from last year.

Curt