We have been through this a few hundred times now.

1. this is not a scientific descision it's a political one.

2 if it were about science and what is good for fish Hogan would have had to rule contrary to how he did.

3. Wild fish and hatchery fish are not the same. A hundred years of hatchery plants has had very little effect on the genetic structure of salmon and steelhead runs in the northwest. That means that wild fish today are just as genetically pure as they were before hatchery operations began. Hatchery fish that spawn in the wild almost never have offspring that survive to adulthood even if they spawn with a wild partner. This ensures the integrity of the wild fish gene pool.
The idea that somehow wild fish have been bred out of exsistence is absolutely false. Anyone who believes that it's true has not read the science behind this issue.

What really irks me. We have people on this board who..

1. oppose the moratorium inspite of more than ample opportunity for public involvment and inspit of having had things their way ever since sport fishing began in Washinton.

2. they oppose any kind of activity that might hurt the population of hatchery fish. Inspite of having more than ample opportunity to harvest these hatchery fish in nearly ever river and small stream in the state.

3. they oppose any kind of habitat protection that might harm certain industries that are known to be destructive to wild fish. Inspite of these industries having had free reign for a hundred years.

What these people appear to me to want is to be able to kill any fish, any time they want, any where they want any way they want..

This decision by the Bush administration is wrong. It's a strategy that has completely failed from the beginning of fish managment til it was stopped a couple years ago. This type of managment is exactly what this thread is called it's a terrorist attack against wild fish. What i mean by that is , this decision is malicious, they intend to strip away protections for these fish so that they can do whatever they want. It's not about science or law. It's 100% about doing something evil, knowing that it's evil, not careing that it is evil, knowing that it is destructive, knowing that it will wipe out whats left of our wild runs. it's not knowing all that and not careing.

The Bush administration see wild fish, unzip their pants pee on them, flip them off and walk away. That's the kind of malice and hatrred we are talking about.