Washington Trout's statement that the HGMP's don't make a good enough case for a good reason to provide fish for harvest is not ambiguous to me. They are trying to show that hatcheries are not needed and should be closed. That is what they have been pushing and will continue to push until they either succeed and fishing falls apart or they are stopped. I , for one, will work hard to try to stop themevery chance I get. Make no mistake, I am all for the habitat restoration ideal but I also know that rivers with pristine habitat have no fish and poor habitats have fish so it isn't cut and dried. So many things are under way right now to help the cause of restoring salmon runs that WT's methods are still radical and extreme in my mind.
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