Plunker. opposing statewide wild steelhead release without exception.. Enough said.

Smolts vs fingerlings is probably a toss up.. however i prefer the one that returns fewer adults and that would be the fingerlings.
Imprinting means nothing. The more hatchery sdults that return the more that will stray and spawn with wild fish and inturn the fewer wild fish there will be.. That is the way it always is and there is no way to avoid it unless you can remove every hatchery fish.

One other thing half a million steelhead smolts of a ton of fish more than should ever be allowed in the Skagit river. Thats more than is planted in all the columbia river tribs below the Dalles dam combined except the Cowlitz. There is more than plenty of opportunity to for guys to harvest hatchery steelhead in Puget sound as there is everwhere in the state. We don't need more harvest opportunity. We need more wild fish!!!! Wasting money on more hatchery programs does not do that.