This section worries me:
"Tacoma, TU, and AR newest excuses for cutting back the release of the 550,000 summer run smolts is that they (Tacoma, TU, AR) are all now claiming that summer run smolts "MAY BE" competing with listed lower river chinook populations. What a bunch BS! Competing where… and for what? Over 90% of the listed lower Columbia River Chinooks are all of hatchery origin, so why not simply make Tacoma produce more hatchery fall chinook if their numbers are too low?"

Hatchery Chinooks aren't listed as ESA stocks. So I don't know how you can say 90% of them are of hatchery origin. So that is misleading. The attitude that if there aren't fish just produce more in a hatchery is what has gotten us in a bad state in the first place. Could it be that all the hatchery fish that are pumped out while they are migrating out to sea are effecting other stocks while they are in the Columbia?

I couldn't support this with this arguement that is being made. I could support it for other reason as I think the sport fishing on the Cow is a good thing for anglers. But making the arguement that ESA listed fish are the same as hatchery fish goes against everything I believe.

Sorry just had to point that out. You can all flame me for being anti-hatchery and that is fine even though I think they have there place.

JJ