Glad to see that AK is finally acknowledging the downturn in PNW chinook productivity that happened 2 years ago.

The ocean turned for the worse in 2014. Even as we were seeing modern day record returns of CR kings in 2014 and 2015, the outbound smolts were swimming into a very hostile ocean.

In terms of diminished ocean productivity for chinook, 42 straight months of positive PDO is really coming home to roost. And it shows no signs of letting up anytime soon.

http://research.jisao.washington.edu/pdo/PDO.latest.txt
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