Doug, the fish you see in crates at the Issaquah Creek hatchery are silvers and chinooks, not sockeye...the great majority of the sockeye coming through the locks go up the Cedar R., not up the Sammamish and up to Issaquah. Of the ones that don't spawn in the Cedar, they mainly spawn in Bear Creek, or in Lakes Washington and Sammamish, being the only salmon that can actually spawn in lakes. A few go up pretty much all the streams that go into those lakes, too, including Issaquah Creek and Tibbets Creek, but not many.

Coho Angler, the sockeye run in Lk. Washington is not an indigenous run. It was introduced, I think, in the 50's. It's never been any bigger than it was in the mid- to late-70's, which was pretty big.

Also, if the Muckleshoots are netting for ceremonial purposes, they're only going to take a couple of thousand fish. A drop in the bucket when we're talking 300,000 to 350,000 fish.

Fish on...

Todd.