Waiting for economic recovery according to RT's pridictions, which I think hold some wisdom, is not an option. Our fisheries are in the entire NW corner of the state are going to be non-existant in a few years. Then it would take 5+ years to rebuild them and that doesn't even include all the volenteer (sp) work to establish brookstock runs etc.

If they close those hat. it will stay that way for a long time imo. I can't fathom this. All the thousands of lives this will impact. Guides etc. I don't see any commercial hatcheries getting closed. How about wiping out the net pens instead. This is purely political. There is at least 5 hatcheries that put a significant ammount of production into the Columbia net pens.

Kitzhaber sucks.