Originally Posted By: Rivrguy


As to the clipped Chinook these are part of the local communities long standing effort to rebuild and maintain the East Fork Satsop wild population that was nearly wiped out prior to the 80's. As one who was involved with the effort I have little sympathy for those that just approach salmon with I want to kill a fish at all cost mentality. That is how we got to this screwed up mess of management allowing marine fisheries to drive stocks to barely make or not make escapement. They do enough damage and we do not need to make it worse with the terminal fisheries with the same uncaring greed that drives marine fisheries.


A clipped hatchery fish is not a wild fish, no matter what kind of convoluted explanation you give. If you want them to be treated as "wild" then they should not be clipped. Everyone is thankful for people like you who dedicated time and effort to rebuilding the run, but saying that certain hatchery fish are not really hatchery fish even though they are as defined by WDFW regs is contradictory and confusing.
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Propping up an obsolete fishing industry at the expense of sound fisheries management is irresponsible. -Sg