I personally see no benefit in steelhead broodstocking.how can their be any benefit from taking true native stock and making harvestable fish.in the case of the satsop the wdfw says that fished reared in hatchery ponds will be fin clipped.so over the last 5 or 6 years the satsop program has been killing 55 pair(i believe that is the correct number,correct me if i'm wrong)of wild stock and rearing hatchery fish.the results are a fair number of harvestable fish to be killed in the system each year,we are also starting to see the decline of wild fish in the satsop.keeping in mind the satsop had one of the best native stock rivers in the state.the next question to arrise is what are they going to do when the native stock gets to low to have the broodstock program?in my eyes we will have a river lacking in wild fish and once the weaker hatchery strain deteriorates from harvest.the river will be far worse off than if it had been left alone. scott