You guys ever read any of Pat Neal's columns (fishing guide out in Oil City) in the Port Angeles paper? He is really critical of the amount of money that is spent on habitat work on the coastal OP rivers. I think his point is that all that work and money haven't resulted in an increase in returning fish. And that those resources would be better used to replicate the hatchery/broodstock efforts of the past.

So what do you think? Does he have a point? Or would hatchery dollars also be down the drain because the SAR is abysmal anyway?

I'm not trying to attack him or his argument, just curious what others think of it.