Curious how many spring chinook are produced at Minter? WDFW page only lists trout/kokanee and steelhead smolt plants. Is there a real effort to increase spring chinook production there? If return numbers are consistant with plants, why not increase production? Maybe hatchery space or other factors are constraints? They should be operating at maximum capacity if they truely want to provide a fishery for them. Otherwise Minter just provides a genetic safety population for White River, and potentially limits rec opportunities.


Edited by RUNnGUN (08/23/23 07:27 AM)