Salmo

Can you even imagine how many of those "hatchery steelhead" would have also survived if they were raised in same pure, clean, diseased free waters as those so called "wild fish" where? The Cowlitz trout hatchery is nothing more than a sewer with rearing ponds and running water!

The hatchery fish are continually exposed to diseased waters, much of which is being puked out from the salmon hatchery above! Just think of how many more "hatchery steelhead" would survive if they had the same opportunity to live in the clean pure water, before they had to pass through the polluted waters below. It's one thing for fish to be healthy when it is released, but what are the olds, when the fish has been continually exposed to diseases such as C Shasta, and held in it until it is released?

Cowlitzfisherman