Last year I read parts of the Cowlitz management plan (takes a whole lot of time to figure out it's one of those zillion page adobe downloads), and the way I understand it, the wild salmon people didn't want so many steelhead on the Cowlitz. They said the steelhead numbers had a negative impact on the chinook and coho. They did three separate impact studies (1 no hatchery steelhead, 2 reduce the numbers or 3 keep the numbers reared the same) and a judge decided on #2 that they would decrease the steelhead numbers. Did anyone else read it and see it that way?
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