Here is my take on this.

1. sparkey is exactly right it WILL!!!! breed a generation of anglers who all they care about is killing as many fish as possible and in years when there are not many hatchery fish they'll kill the wild ones legal or not.

2. if there is so many hatchery fish coming back then our hatcheries are overproducing maybe we could save a little money by not planting more fish than we can use..

3. Also no matter what else happens the 5 wild fish per year is absolutely unacceptable! the limit on wild fish should be 0 per year period. As long as there are hatcheries there is no reason for the harvest of wild fish period!

4. WDFW wants to lower all our fisheries to the lowest common denominator. They want ever river to be just like the Cowlitz. That is their modle fishery. They do not care about the quality of the experience only about high harvest numbers. This is a political ploy to add legitimacy to that approach. I know some people just want as many fish to catch as possible but that is not what everyone wants. Many and increasing numbers of us want quality fishing experiences, having tens of thousands of hatchery fish in every little stream does not accomplish that, in fact it makes our fishing worse by increasing the pressure and decreasing the number of wild fish. WDFW knows this and does not care!

5. I am all for eliminating hatchery fish from the rivers before they spawn. Harvesting is an extremely ineffective way to do that. This poropsal shows the flat out irresponsibility of WDFW and their hatchery managment. They refuse to operate their hatcheries in a way that is safe for wild ateelhead they could do so easily they just refuse to.

This proposed reg is not the outcome of logical thought, it is the avoidance of serious problems with WDFW policies and managment. It is in it's most basic form doing nothing about a huge problem that no one in the upper ranks of WDFW wants to deal with. The problem is our wild runs are going down the crapper and WDFW ain't doing nothing but flushing..