Washington has a focus on chinook, coho and steelhead. They represent a fairly small percentage of the total catch by all countries, but, that said, they have some awfully good scientists who have produced some really good papers, again focusing on the mechanisms that regulate salmon when they enter the ocean. The mechanisms still look like a fish that grows faster and quicker in the first weeks to months, exceeds a threshold, and then stores enough fat to survive the first ocean winter, and that's only 3% or 4% of the population.
Washington-based scientists have done some excellent work, but so have Alaska-based scientists.