Well Gooose, I don't agree with you. Ask the shellfish boys at Brinnon what they think about the shrimp situation and anoxia in Hood Canal. And chum dying en masse out on the beach should not be happening and never would happen in a natural system - they would swim upriver, spawn, and die where they would be available to a wide variety of animals and plants as nutrients that would be largely removed before they got into the Canal. This is a blatantly artificial situation and a point source discharge of nutrients that should not be occurring and violates water quality laws - certainly these laws are enforced on everyone else, like commercial fish processors or commercial net pen salmon growers, who would just love to discharge dead fish into the nearest water body rather than haul them away for treatment in a waste facility. These fish being dumped on the beach after the eggs are stripped was not the intent of the decision to undertake artificial propagation in this area - the intent was to have those fish taken away and processed. This is wrong, illegal, and damaging to the ecosystem. DOE and EPA are getting a call from me tomorrow