01/09/2022

Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
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I have a thought. You know how various boards and commissions solicit grant applications for salmon enhancement and recovery? Maybe a group could cobble together a grant proposal for a downstream passage facility at Wynoochee. Most of the recovery and enhancement funds are spent on projects that generally cannot be shown to produce measurable results. A downstream fishway at Wynoochee - with monitoring as part of the proposal - would document how many juveniles are passed downstream annually. Coupled with the existing data collection of upstream migrants, a good production data set would exist to validate - or not - the value of the fish habitat in the upper Wynoochee River basin.


To this I say BS....WDFW and the Wynoochee River should have NEVER been pared together to get anything done. WDFW personnel should have been fired for the lack of leadership to get major projects done "below the dam". WDFW foot dragging leave us in the mess we have now.

There was a project to have a hatchery system just below the Dam, for whatever this plan never got moving....Federal monies because they weren't being used, went back into the Federal budget and ended up being spent on the Afghanistan War effort......we know how that ended up.

When Tacoma City Light took over control of the Dam from the City of Aberdeen, there was a mitigation fund set up, $2.4 million dollars. That fund was establish about 1992. There was talk about to spent the monies......again WDFW foot dragging. WDFW and QIN had many meetings, general public was not allow to be at any of the meetings, after a few initial meetings. There could have been something done......30 years later, not 1 fish has been placed in the Wynoochee River, from the fish part of the monies that were to go for additional hatchery Coho and steelhead.......to that I say grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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