I wouldn't be so quick to attribute any additional Chinook to any particular cause. It appears we have a pattern of fish arriving late and in larger numbers than generally forecast. Having said that, I was able to sit in on a webinar presented by Dr. Carl Walters. The scientific evidence associating sea lion population increases to corresponding declining salmon populations is becoming increasingly certain. Many people can stick their heads in the sand in denial, however the evidence is mounting. Sea Lions alone account for an estimated 300,000 tonnes of salmon removals. If this was a single fishery, DFO and others would call it an urgent emergency and take immediate actions to restrict that fishery...but because it's a protected critter, we choose to look the other way. What some people have been saying for a while now is we restricted human removals of these animals, which ignores the fact that First Nations communities pre-contact removed significant numbers of these animals keeping them in balance. Now that we have imposed our cultural values on these communities, stopping these traditional uses there is an imbalance. People need to take off those biased cultural beliefs and accept that humans are also part of the ecosystem and play(ed) a significant role in maintaining balance. The current restrictions on harvest are imposing cultural bias resulting in unanticipated consequences for salmon.