Fishmyster
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The majority of Eulachon watersheds have decent WQ (poss exception Fraser and South). Substrate issues (i.e. clean sand or lack thereof and/or sand covered over w fines, etc) would be a more likely impact - as would diseases from fish farms (ISA and PRv).
Do you have any consistent water quality test results for Fraser or other euclachon spawning streams during the springs 1990-1995?? Good luck finding any! "more likely impact" isn't the scientific conclusion I am going for. Eulachon stock crash was coastal and happened the same time as coastal steelhead crash. Why not herring? Are herring exempt from fish farm disease and sea lice where as eulachon and steelhead are not? I'm still running with the tainted water theory. Again, just my opinion.