Again, anyone else want to call baloney.

"Idea: Leave the Chehalis open from Skookumchuck down to Galvin RD Bridge for the opportunity to catch Skookumchuck hatchery fish.

This proposal is to target late-timed, hatchery origin steelhead returning to Skookumchuck hatchery. However, impacts to wild steelhead will occur given that 33% of the total Chehalis wild escapement occurs upstream of this section. In addition, given the size of this section of river (~1.5 miles) crowding and higher than expected encounters are likely to occur. Additionally, counts of hatchery steelhead have declined during the past three weeks; from 363 hatchery steelhead on Feb. 5 to 76 hatchery steelhead on Feb. 19 consistent with previous years."

If I reading this correctly, he is stating that the number of returns are falling and most are through the system and this is part of the reason they are not opening up the fishery. I would guess the hatchery is not recycling fish, so how does he explain that 310 fish (about 27%) to the Skookumchuck Hatchery in the last week ( February 27th to March 5th).