AuntyM says Right on! That is the smartest thing said in the long list of diatribe here.
Why ruin a perfectly good hatchery river that has and will continue to have (probably) dams on it that all the special interest groups claim is what killed off the wild fish in the first place?? I mean, does it take a rocket scientist to figure out that if the dams did the fish in for the most part, then restoring a wild run is probably not going to work? Big waste of money just so a few flyfisherman can get a stiffy releasing a fish with an adipose fin....
Improving and maintaining a natural (native) run in a river like the Wind, Klickitat, Quinault, etc. is a good thing. Trying to do so on a dammed river that is and has been a hatchery river for decades is a joke........

MC