While the Stillaguamish is the poster child of a Chinook stock in trouble (non-viable) it is hardly the only PS stock in trouble.

With minimal effort I was able to find 7 other PS stocks that consistently have R/S less than 1: Nooksack, Sammamish, Green, White River, Nisqually, Skokomish, and Dungeness. They all require some of sort of hatchery support/supplementation to assure the fish continue to return. How do we as a society justify continuing to spend precious recovery dollars in those basins without some sort of major paradigm shift where and how those dollars are spent.

Curt