Regardless of WT or not, a sockeye hatchery on the Cedar would be STUPID and just an excuse to start damaging natural lake spawning areas by bulkheading the shoreline and building docks, and damaging the river by armoring it to control floods and erosion, when what really should be done is getting people to quit building in the floodplain and stay away from shorelines Hatchery supplementation of a healthy self-sustaining population like the LW sockeye would start the locally adapted stock on a downward spiral, like it has in every river with every other species that this was tried on over the past century. Here are some of the things that can go wrong: Hatchery fish spawn with wild fish and the run timing gets screwed up, because every hatchery manager wants to be sure to make their egg quota and so takes the majority of their broodstock from the early part of the run. Subsequent fish spawn too early and eggs get washed out by the first fall flush. Confused hatchery fish also try to spawn with the lake spawners, who have developed seperate genetic codes from the river spawners, and reverse the genetics that make these two distinct spawning adaptations successful. Hatchery gets a disease and infects all the wild fish. Hatchery takes a big chunk out of wild spawners (have to put a wier across the river of course) and then have one of those perennial distasters like the "alarm didn't work and nobody noticed" incedent that just occured a few months ago on the Nestucca. I could go on and on but by now you should have the picture - and an ugly one it is WT or no, we should all oppose this stupidity