Nicely put Salmo.

It sounds like the LLTK group is doing a similar thing, perhaps even in the same or adjacent watersheds in HC, for local steelhead populations. . .using broodstocking as a tool to provide life support to those steelhead populations on the brink. Any knowledge of that? Sorry to the OP to sidebar the conversation, but it's interesting.

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