Zen,

Despite the risk of getting bashed for advocating harvest of wild steelhead here I will post a paragraph from my written testimony to the Commission. The entire letter is posted on another forum where I am more comfortable stating my views without invoking unsavory emotional response.

"In the Green/Duwamish river system in the Puget Sound region the hatchery production of summer steelhead has introduced a small wild population where no native summer stock had existed and the juveniles of that introduced stock compete for the food and habitat resources with the native winter steelhead. It would be in the best interest of the native stocks to allow harvest of these non-native wild fish as a means of reducing that competition."