I’ve seen videos where they aren’t even eating the fish - they catch them, peel the skin off, eat the skin for the fatty content and throw away the fish. If those bears were in fat production mode, they wouldn’t feel like eating berries at all if there were fish nearby. That’s what I would think.
Exactly. Films show the rotting salmon carcasses with dangling entrails all overcthe stream beds.
And when a Tim Treadwell shows up with his girlfriend, well it’s a gift from Ursus Major in the heavens. Deelish!