wheyerhouser single handedly wiped out the wild salmon of the issaquah creek in the early part of the century.

My father is the head of FISH friends of issaquah salmon hatchery and my friends girlfriend runs the educational department there and the salmon camp for kids. i grew up playing at the hatchery and even fishing there back in the day when my buddies dad ran it...... however!!!

the hatchery has done little if anything to attain wild (or as close as they can get)spawning fish ppulations in the creek. the hatchery led to the demise of the wild steelhead population on the creek by not allowing them to pass upstream for many many years. there are no steelhead on the creek anymore.(hatchery or wild, except one single returning efluvial fish)
the hatchery does nothing but provide salmon for the commercial fisherman and spreads a half truth to a quarter million people that "the salmon are back in record numbers and we have fixed our salmon problems" If it was used to educate the public to the reality of our salmon and steelhead emergency then it would be a positive thing but instead it misleads the general public into thinking that we have record returns. i will believe the "record returns"spouting folks when wild chinook and steelhead return like pinks do now. other than that, i think the hatchery should be shut down and so should the nets. it is total and complete hypocricy on the part of MISmanagement. the goal of a hatchery should be to put itself out of work as soon as possible by creating spawning populations that dont need mans money or pellets to survive

hatchery salmon are really a red herring!!!