No Hoh (that's a pretty good rhyme ), the mandatory release has not come up at any of the meetings that I've been at (may have years ago) ... although I certainly encourage it in my boat.

We use tubes for the fish once we get them to an accessible area (for the truck). It's pretty hard to get down the 'Duc rapids with the tubes ... it's been tried We are now looking at perhaps getting some larger coolers and outfitting them with small battery-powered air pumps. We're currently just doing things the hard way ... the hen we tethered today was near the top of the drift and I didn't want to try to run the remainder of the fishing trip with a fish attached to the boat the whole way, so I tied her off and then went back down (at about mach 9 to the tie-off point) with Fishgal and then babied her down to the ramp ... a hassle, but one worth while. Corey's actually never seen what we do in person and she was pretty taken with the whole thing ... she even named the fish "Hope"

There's a page at www.piscatorialpursuits.com/wildfish.htm that overviews the project. The eggs are hatched out at the Sol Duc salmon hatchery and then transferred back to the rearing pen at Snider Creek. The wild brood stock is one of the only differences, but it's a HUGE one as you start dealing with genetics: natural selection, run timing, size, ability to naturally spawn, resistance to disease, etc.