I realize that much of the news about steelhead looks bad, especially when folks with any sort of long term memory chime in. I still believe that we have a chance, but a closing window, o recover wild steelhead to much larger numbers than now. Maybe not to historic highs, but lots more wild fish.

But, we have to do triage. The Green (KingCo, Cedar, Puyallup, and probably others in PS, simply are too developed and will continue to be developed. We will have to "lock up" wild fish watersheds and manage them first for natural resources. The other developed rivers go to major hatchery production with the wild stocks written off.

We do that and we'll have a chance. We continue to try and save wild fish everywhere and we will have nice museum runs to look at but not touch.