What's not being made clear in this proposal is that no additional hatchery fish are going to be added to the system - they will release less at the Cascade Hatchery and instead truck them down to Grandy Creek to release there. So a bunch of extra money is going to be spent, and habitat damage is going to be done to the floodplain, in the Grandy Creek area for no gain in production. All this because someone thinks it's a good idea to spread the hatchery fish out a little, and that this will somehow benefit everyone. Stupid idea if you ask me. Fishinsinsation has the right idea - the Skagit is actually still capable of producing wild fish, whereas the Cowlitz is not, and money and management should be put in to wild fish habitat protection and restoration, and into better wild fish management on the Skagit. This project flies right in the face of that - by now concentrating hatchery fish in a second area, fishing pressure (including netting), and hatchery/wild interactions will occur in two places instead of one. But stupid ideas about where there is money and politics