But of course given the iconic nature of Pacific salmon and its importance culturally and economically, I think a focus on Pacific salmon is warranted. And given they are a group of five species that go way up into the inland areas to spawn, they need freshwater nursery habitats, they need good gravel to spawn in, then they go back to the ocean and they need a food web that sustains them in different stages of life, I think it's fairly safe to conclude if the 2010 run and the expected 2014 run are any indication, we can say the entire system, including the fisheries management regime that manages those stocks, is all in pretty good shape. Isn't it?
