first off let WDFW know that you oppose the Grandy creek project period.
A public hearing on the proposed steelhead acclimation pond will be held from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, July 14, in Hearing Room B on the ground floor of the Skagit County Administration Building, 700 S. Second St. in downtown Mount Vernon.

Second of all there are a number of reasons to oppose the project.

1. WDFW cannot afford to fund the hatchery programs they already opperate,

2. it is impossible to operate a hathery without negativley impacting wild fish

3. the money spent on Grandy creek would have to come from somewhere.. What other project wil lose funding??

4. terminal fishing areas which the grandy creek project would create are notorious for being high crime areas with a very noticible lack of angling ethic or respect for angling regulation

5. it would create large amounts of litter as happens at every single terminal fishery

6. it would increase angling pressure on wild runs that are already doing very poorly

7 it would provide more opportunity for hatchery fish to spawn in the wild thereby causing a sever threat to the wild population.

THE only advantage i can see to this project is that the Dolly's will get bigger as juvenile steelhead will be available to them for a longer period of time..

ohh and you might turn the Skagit into another Cowlits for a few weeks every winter, now who really wants that???

On the other hand if you like parking lots filles with empty beer cans, plastic bait containers and used diapers the Grandy project is all for you.. It'll be a great supplement to poaching wild Skagit river chinook...