A fault in his argument!!

His argument is that the goal is to return spawners to spawning grounds. I would disagree with that goal. Our goal should be to have our spawners producing offspring at a rate that increases the population to the maximum possible..
Spawners mean nothing if what they produce is nothing!.. In all the cases he mentiones in his articles every one of them that I am aware of are on systems that are still heavily planted with hatchery fish.. No distinction was made as to the origin of the spawners that return! The could just as easily simply be stray hatchery fish, particularly with the chinooks in the columbia, most of which are not clipped...

The real and ONLY way to evaluate the effectivness of a hatchery fish in the wild is to stop planting hatchery fish!!! Only then will you know if you have achieved restoration...

He complains about politics,well his position also is a political one NOT BASED ON SCIENCE only his interpretation of the data.. His interpretation being Hatchery fish spawning makes them wild... Don't be fooled that's ALL ge said...