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Originally posted by stlhead:
http://www.ofm.wa.gov/budget03/reductions/reductions.pdf

They saved $1,285,000 by closing hatcheries and allocated $1,000,000 to implement the recommendations of the Hatchery Scientific Review Group whatever those may be.
Hatchery Reform is a federally funded look at the hatcheries in Puget Sound, how they're not working and how to make them better

http://www.lltk.org/hatcheryreform.html

Mccallister Creek near Nisqually was shut down on Hatchery Reform recomendation, and they don't raise chinook at Coulter because of it. The Hatchery Science Review Group, the brains behind the project released their first recomendations last Feb

http://www.lltk.org/pdf/HSRG_Recommendations_Feb_02.pdf

THey were for the strait of JDF, South Sound and the Stilly/Sno