I'm not too impressed. His main point seemed to be: if you plant fish in a river that has little or no fish, there will be more fish in 2-5 years. Really? We have known that for a long time.

And take the Steelhead out of the title of this "study" please. His 17 examples of successfull hatchery introductions did not include one of o. mykiss .

In terms of steelhead, if I remember correctly from prior discussions on this board, smolts produced naturally (?) in the rivers from hatchery/hatchery crosses and hatchery/wild crosses are obviously genetically inferior because the adult return from the crosses is virtually zero. They just don't make it out and back........

Ike