CFM,

The last few years, before any proposed reductions in hatchery plants, the winter run hatchery fish in the Cowlitz have been nosediving, haven't they?

Also, the Cowlitz, as noted before, is not very similar to any other situation in the State, so extrapolating stuff from the Cowlitz hatcheries to other watersheds doesn't really work.

Dont' forget the option to just not have hatcheries at all, if PLF gets their way. If the State of Oregon is serious about recovering wild coho, and can't use the ESA to help because of all the hatchery coho, might they stop planting coho to avoid the problem?

I don't know which way they would go, I just know that it would be bad for fish and fishing either way.

Fish on...

Todd