Bruce,

Posted by you on Steelheader.net:

"Good luck in your battles fighting the tribes and commercials. My steelhead gear is officially retired and I will join you in your efforts to save our wild fish by supporting a total ban on sportfishing for steelhead and closing our hatcheries. "

Posted by you here on PP: (same stuff)

"Good luck in your battles fighting the tribes and commercials. My steelhead gear is officially retired and I will join you in your efforts to save our wild fish by supporting a total ban on sportfishing for steelhead and closing our hatcheries."

Posted by you here on PP:

"Closed hatcheries and Mandatory C&R coming to river near you!"

Posted by you here on PP:

"If some groups get their way our steelhead hatcheries will be shut down."

Bruce,

There is nothing in our Mission Statement or in the Draft Hatchery Policy that addresses shutting down hatcheries at all.

Our Draft Policy will attempt to set production goals for hatcheries and guidelines for how hatcheries should be evaluated to see how successful they are or not. This information can then be used to re-tool hatchery practices to help them better achieve their goals.

The only ones who can close hatcheries are the agencies that run them.

Fish on...

Todd.