Releasing any fish below the trap does little as they simply will line up in the trap again. Many have advocated shutting the trap once brood numbers for the mitigation are taken but then you have the mitigation fish spawning with wild. I remember one gentlemen in a meeting climbing right in the deputy directors face with " just what the hell do you think they do when put above the trap" By the way they could use 100% wild brood every year and pass clipped up which would go a long ways toward ending genetic degradation.

My question has always been how many juveniles survive the out migration? We were told by staff that the lake is to cold to rear Coho in net pens and get them up to size so how do Steelhead prosper? The lake is a very sterile lake so just are these juveniles foraging on? The list goes on and on with more questions than answers.