Glowball ... That very scenario has occurred on the Sol Duc where state / tribal managers told the Guides' Assocaition that we were planting too many fish in the Sol Doc via the broodstock program there. In order to avoid a nasty fight we agreed to voluntarily cut the plants from 100,000 to 50,000 fish.

A few years back, there was a large egg take and about 125,000 smolt made it to release size. The state ordered the program folks to destroy 25,000 smolt.

Since the inception of this program, there has been a pretty significant increase in spawning in the upper reaches of the Duc and even some tribs in that area ... coincidence?? You tell me