Salmo g., there were certainly a lot of concerns about the security of fish in the White River hatchery when the facility first opened. How could you not be concerned given the water quality at that location? As D.B. pointed out though, that facility now has a good track record of being able to successfully rear those fish - large piles of glacial sediment shoveled out of rearing ponds after fish release notwithstanding. The question is whether the Hupp Springs program should still be operated as primarily a recovery program or whether its purpose should be changed to a harvest program and marking applied for that purpose. I don't believe that there is any question that WDFW would continue this program as a harvest program if they could get agreement from the tribes. These White River Chinook always had a propensity to contribute to the sport fishery, even in the days when they were actually critical to maintaining the population. So much so that WDFW even crossed the White River population with other PS fall Chinook to use in their yearling Chinook program that at one time made huge contributions to a year round fishery in the sound. (I can't say this with utmost certainty, but I will give WDFW the benefit of the doubt and say that when they did the crosses using WR Chinook that they strictly used male gametes rather than taking eggs that should have been used for the perpetuation of the population.)