Steelhead declines linked with poor survival of young fish in the ocean

[IronNoggin]

Beginning to enumerate what many of us were and are seeing:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-steelh...es-linked.html

Sadly,
Nog

[Surrey Boy]

Blame China.

[markomoose]

Start taking the seals out of the equation.Too many of them around!

[adriaticum]

Biologists are always looking for that "one thing" to blame, but in reality it's all of the above and mostly over fishing.

[S.W.A.T.]

Start taking the seals out of the equation.Too many of them around!

Couldn't agree more

[Caribou_lou]

Less seals would benefit all salmon and trout populations.

[Surrey Boy]

Less seals would benefit all salmon and trout populations.

Not to mention they're very marketable, both hides and meat. Millions of dollars we're missing out on.

[REMINGTON JIM]

Less seals would benefit all salmon and trout populations.

YUP Kill the Seals for sure ! Terrible hard on the Fish Population ! RJ

[HarryToolips]

If their decline like the article says, has been since the 80's, and is strongly attributed to seal populations, you would've seen a crash in seal numbers a while ago, no? I would think the most probable reason for their decline would be the parasites and chemical contaminants their suspecting...I sure hope they figure it out before it's too late..

[Ride Red]

Survival of the young are only one of the problems. I've fished the Nass, Skeena, Bella Coola and Fraser systems for many years. The amount of adult fish poached or just plain misidentified as other catch (Eg: Coho) has been extremely hard on these stocks. Two summers ago on the Skeena a guide and his client from Mexico drug a beautiful steelhead up on the rocks saying it was a coho right beside me. After explaining to the guides client what they'd done, they didn't really want to fish anymore. Of course the guide wasn't happy with me, but someone had to explain right from wrong.