So it seems we should just shoot the Racoons, Herons, Seals, Mergansers Gulls and maybe any Eagles in the estuary too . The reason all of these animals are feasting on smolts is because we decided that it was better to have millions of them raised nice and fat in a hatchery, having never had to evade a predator, then flush them down into the estuary in a few pulses for millions of them to mingle about waiting to get picked off. And now its the predators fault they have figured out an easy meal exists and are taking advantage of it?