Thank you so much this was an incredible video. Nothing better than family and fishing. I love to hear the way you speak of your children and the environment we all can hear you care
I would also add the large factory ships in Alaska supplying people with fish sticks and McD's fillet-o-fish sandwiches. They kill millions of pounds of salmon every year as bycatch in the pollock fishery.
I came across a great scientific review paper from a few years back on this. Ulimately the reduced size of chinook salmon is likely a combination of lots of things, the largest suspects being a change in forage distribution(they are now eating less fatty forage) and selective predation from our now thriving pinniped polulations. Chinook and Chum seem to be most impacted while the smaller species like Sockeye and Pink are actually showing high levels of abundance with no reduction in average size.
