Copied from a post I made on Bruce's board:

>The release of the principles and recommendations of the Hatchery Scientific

>Review Group (HSRG) marks the culmination of four years of intensive

>scientific inquiry, examination and recommendations for reform of the Puget

>Sound and coastal Washington hatchery system. The HSRGs work ranges from

>specific, science-based recommendations for nearly 1,000 program-level

>changes at more than 100 hatcheries, to a new way of thinking about

>hatcheries, embodied in the HSRGs Principles for Hatchery Management.

>

>The Hatchery Reform Project was formed with bipartisan support in 2000. Led

>by independent scientists and supported by state and congressional leaders,

>the project is a systematic, science-driven reform of hatcheries to achieve

>two goals help recover wild salmon and steelhead populations and support

>sustainable fisheries. Mandated and funded by Congress, the $20 million

>dollar project reviewed more than 200 hatchery programs in ten regions in

>Puget Sound and coastal Washington.

These were the speakers that were at the event yesterday:

Washington Governor Gary Locke

>· U.S. Congressman Norm Dicks

>· Billy Frank Jr., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

>· Jeff Koenings, Director, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

>· Lars Mobrand, President, Mobrand Biometrics and Chair of the HSRG

>· Jim Waldo, Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell L.L.P.

>· Barbara Cairns, Executive Director, Long Live the Kings

I have heard over and over from the anti WSR folks that they wanted to see the science followed. Well, here you go.

For those of you that remember the big doings on this board a while back with Washington Trout, I believe that the HSRG was what WT sued to gain public input on. May be wrong, Todd, Ramon????