There has never been a Skamania winter run stock, we have chambers creek fish here. Also there isn't anywhere down here or in Puget sound for that matter that heas a healthy enough run to develop wild broodstock programs..

Also the idea of run timing and the temporal seperation of hatchery and wild stocks is 100% false.. I have caught freshly spawned out chambers creek stock fish in MAY!!! They rutinely spawn along side wild fish late in the season. It's also false to assume that wild winter steelhead only spawn in March and April, it is common for them to spawn as early as January!

but all of that has nothing to do with my comments.. If a hatchery isn't holding it's own it is a waste of my taxes and should be closed...