Well, a couple things about the Naselle and Willapa Bay. First, the Naselle has no dams and very good habitat. It should be raising wild fish for free and not hatchery fish for mega-bucks. Also, the fish raised in the Naselle very rarely contribute to the sports fishery, and instead are caught by gillnetters and sold for 20 cents per pound - these are fish that cost $2 per pound to produce. Finally, a very interesting study was done on Willapa Bay several years ago - someone looked at hatchery returns, the sport and commercial catch records, and returns dating back to the early 20th century and before hatcheries, and determined that even with hatchery supplementation the run size never increased, all that happened was that more coho returned and fewer chum, and the chinook stayed the same. Except now we have 3 hatcheries on the Willapa and spend a million bucks a year running them. This tells me that the ecosystem itself is a limiting factor - not surprising since half the esturary has been diked for agriculture, a large portion has been turned into an oyster farm complete with carbaryl spraying, and spartina has converted much of the rest of it into an exotic jungle not necessarily conducive to salmon production. So yeah, cut our losses, cut the hatchery program on the Willapa, and most importantly cut out the goddam commercial fishery

Oh yeah, and what is the matter with this state is that most of you penny pinchers vote for whatever hairbrained tax cutting measure Tim Eyeman comes up with, and you vote down any measure to raise money. So the Gov is doing what you want - cutting back government. Why aren't you all happy