i don't understand how taking native stock from the rivers and killing them,raising fin clipped smolts so they come back as a harvestable fish can possibly help the river systems.it is my understanding that the female native rarely lives through the egg taking process,a little more success with the milking of the males.so every year there killing natives to make hatchery fish because 99% of the fisherman out there see a missing adipose fin and the club comes out.i'm also talking about the broodstock program on the satsop,not sure what the process is on the other rivers.if they would broodstock the rivers,leave the fish untouched as true natives, this could be a great program.for some reason the wdfw won't allow the fish to enter the river without being clipped so what we have is a few less natives every year and a few more fin clipped harvestable fish.now how long do you thik this is going to last before we run into a problem??scott