PETA!!!

EXTREMISTS!!!

ANTI-"SPORT"FISHING"!!!

LEFT WING!!!

Looks like they are pissing all of the same people on this board who feel like their 'right' to fish is sacrosanct.

For that reason alone, I like them.

If not for WT's litigation what leverage would there be against poor hatchery practices?

This answers to the posted question will breakdown into two predctable groups....those that feel native fish populations in Washington rivers are above the needs of sportsmen to fish and those that feel their right to fish supercedes the need to protect wild steelhead and salmon.

Why don't people understand that taking the position 'hatchery fish at the expense of wild fish, or at the expense of my right to fish' is an equally radical position to that of WT?

In the end, hasn't their litigation resulted in WDFW's compliance with Federal law? The only way I could see some one viewing this as bad is if they didn't agree with the ESA listings in the first place...a very difficult position to defend, but I'm listening.......