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Originally Posted by IronNoggin
Close but not quite. Currently seals & sea lions consume around 45 - 50 % of all the chinook and coho that smolt from the Fraser River. HUGE impact. We'll simply take his killer whale comment for what it was worth - as in nada.
On the other hand, around 75 K or so chinook spawners are killed by FN's in the same river each year, with Fishless Ocean's blessing. Translates to one hell of a lot of potential smolts the following year.
But nope, let's curtail everyone one else, and tuck our heads firmly up our backsides instead... 
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Well, maybe the orca comment was overkill but once all those additional salmon spawners make it upstream the habitat for eggs, alevin, parr, and smolts is critical for the percentage getting back to the ocean the next year.