Curt, you outlined pretty much my own personal feelings about broodstock programs very well...mining wild fish to create harvestable fish that may or may not even return at as high a rate as the wild fish had they just been left alone makes zero sense to me.

For some reason the guys running the program down on the Chehalis tribs were surprised, but they shouldn't have been...as soon as the broodstock program had harvestable numbers of fish, the Quinalts starting netting later into the year to get at them...and, of course, were netting up the wild fish while they were at it.

I'm not saying that broodstock programs in general do not work, but the amount of effort that has been put into running them, versus the amount of monitoring that has actually been done on them to see if and how they work, is astronomically lopsided towards running the programs, with little monitoring or testing having been done at all.

Fish on...

Todd