"Wonder how far a billion dollars in fish production would go?"

If spent in the White and Puyallup River systems, it would primarily benefit salmon fishing in Canada and the treaty fishing terminal area. I might return a handful of salmon to non-treaty sport fishing in Marine Areas 9 and 10. The benefit to the southern resident killer whales would be about the same as for the non-treaty sport fishery.

A billion dollars in hatchery fish production doesn't buy as much as sport fishermen seem to expect. The money WDFW spends on hatchery salmon production is a bigger waste than the millions Seattle and King Country spend to not improve the homelessness situation in King. Co.