A fish genetically programmed for the "large/old" phenotype has the deck seriously stacked against its survival in the present-day harvest milieu.

The very unnatural selection pressures being placed on large/old fish renders that life history strategy a genetic dead end.

Open ocean fishing over the "pasture" inherently places disproportionate exploitation on the large fish phenotype. We cannot harvest proportionately across the full spectrum of size/age class until the fishery transitions to a more terminal model.

The status quo will seal the coffin for the overwhelming majority of large chinook.