HOLY CRAP! Only 5 of 48 smolts made it past the SJdF! That's a 90% mortality rate!

Hood Canal fish are basically toast right at the floating bridge. My guess is that the hatchery selects for good surface feeders and the dam things don't have any instinct to swim down deeper to get around the surface obstruction... so they mill about the surface at the bridge til they get eaten by birds.
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The Keen Eye MD
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