I know the Nisqually hasn't been stocked in over 10 years and hasn't been open to steelhead fishing (not even CnR) for almost 10 years now. Although it is still netted by the Nisqually tribe, they averaged about 83 fish each year (in the last 8) except for one year they didn't net and another year they only got 28 fish.

I see the same thing happening to every river that ends hatchery stocking. It's been over 10 years and we still can't fish the Nisqually; how long would it take the average river to produce enough wild fish alone for even a CnR fishery? Evidently more than 10 years.