Right on Auntie!

We have a ton of problems facing our fish. That should be obvious by the fact that more then half of all distinct chinook species in the state are on the brink of extinction. Many are already extinct. And I do not for a minute buy that crap about how many animals have gone extinct in the past. We know what caused these extinctions. We did!

No one action will bring them back, be banning nets, tearing down hatcheries, feel good habitat projects or whatever. In fact I seriously doubt you ever again see healthy chinook runs in Puget Sound's urban streams.

I agree with a previous poster who said we should stuff our ruined rivers with salmon form hatcheries and keep them off the few remaining rivers. If that means some marginal rivers need to be closed, so be it. There would be added opportunity on the ones we stuff with fish.

The Vedder River in B.C. seems like a good model. They have huge hatchery plants of chinook, steelhead and coho. Thousands of urban anglers enjoy excellent fishing. Other nearby rivers have no hatcheries and are managed to keep their wild stock healthy.