I know that there are many members who are strong "wild fish" advocates on our board. But on the Cowlitz, the original "wild fish" have long since been eliminated through many decades of nothing but hatchery production. So this is strictly a "management" question poll; it's not about wild fish vs hatchery fish; it's a question about "how" the Cowlitz should now be managed. There has been no "new stocks" of "winter run steelhead" introduced or used in the Cowlitz hatchery since 1967 (30 years ago). All Hatchery winter run brood stocks have come from returning Cowlitz adult fish since 1967. All run timings have been intermixed by the hatchery until 1997. So here's the pole for the Cowlitz:

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