Duc, Dog and Dan, sorry you guys, but you're wrong. Just got off the phone with the Quinault tribe's net pen manager, and he says they've never clipped the DORSAL off any fish from any tribal facility, and that they are only marking a portion of their steelhead with an adipose clip even now, just to indicate a coded wire tag in their snouts. Also talked to the regional fish bio at Mill Creek WDFW, and he also said they've never clipped dorsals off steelhead from any state hatchery. Like I said, the dorsals do get deformed from hatchery rearing, sometimes to the point non-existence. That's why 12, 15 years ago, and recently on the Hoh as I recall, you could measure the dorsal to determine if the fish was hatchery or wild. It was never because the dorsals were clipped, because they weren't.