All of the Columbia River tributaries are experiencing very low summer steelhead returns this year, in the range of 15 to 20% of the recent 10-year average. I see no reason why the Kalama would be immune to this problem. The best "guesses" for this low survival are the legacy effects of the "blob" that out-migrating smolts experienced in the form of low nutrient, low forage supplies in near shore coastal ocean waters and the effects of the 2015 drought. While the number of hatchery smolts released has been reduced and even eliminated on some rivers, the Kalama does not appear to be on that list.