The Deschutes will never make sense to me, They claim it is unaccessible without the ladder, so there should be no true native king run. But, when tens of thousands of excess kings come back, they through them in the dumpster or sell them as surplus rather than let them head up stream. The only answer I can think of is that they are afraid when they hit the salt, they will skew the numbers of true wild fish out there. If, however, the fish stock is native to the area, how much different are they from other native stocks, that all have some diluted genes from hatchery fish? If having in any hatchery genes is that horrible, then what is up with the Minter raised spring chinook?