Cow'fisher', I noticed in your profile you registered at P.P. last year, in June 2000, yet it says this is your first post. With your apparent knowledge base it would have been nice for you to have been actively posting earlier. At any rate, I have already posted some things consistent with what you have posted here. As for Salmo G. having inside info about the dealings, it has been posted here before by members that he works for the NMFS - out of the Olympia office. I don't have first hand knowledge of that, but it may help explain some things? I know he asked me for access to the study I posted concerning C&R survival rates of spring chinook salmon. I haven't seen a Salmo post countering it since I put up the e-mail addys to access the publicly available extensive study info. Maybe because of disappointment that I was correct, and it wouldn't serve certain NMFS agendas; driven by Dept. of the Interior Secretarial Order #3206? Hmmm, don't know. Not sure why else it was requested. The more the public learns about what is unfairly going on behind closed doors with our money toward sportfishing opportunity the better; i.e.- Cowlitz R. situation and grossly unfair Columbia springer under-allocations for sportfishers! So keep correct and verifiable info coming guys. Thanks.