Originally Posted By: Chinook 1
TP created the fish technical committee or FTC that all the agencies had a seat at the table except for the sports community....And good old Salmo g just happened to represent NOAA on the FTC.

Just to clarify - the sports community is not an agency, therefore they would have no seat at the table. Their interest should have been represented by WDFW. I also want to clarify that Salmo g was long gone from the FTC when decisions about Cowlitz hatchery programming were finally made.