What if all hatchery production stopped on the Skagit for 4-8 years? Would the native fish start coming back earlier like they did along time ago? Seems to me like any money spent on the Skagit should be spent on enforcement, and habitat, and maybe buying out the fricken gillnetting bast*****. I hate to see that river turn into a Cowlitz North.

Tough subject,,,, We need more wild fish AND hatchery fish. If they would make a darn sterile steelhead like the triploids then we wouldnt have much to worry about.
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"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
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