I have caught alot of fish over the years out of the hood canal tribs and would have to say that more have wounds from fighting the gauntlet of seals than do not.The fish eating mammals in the canal I believe is the biggest reason left that the fish do not come back to there former status.

An old-timer once told me that the seal pop. in the canal started growing after the hood canal bridge was built because the transient killer whales quit coming in and thinning them out.