Marsha, no matter how many times you say that harvest that isn't happening is the problem to focus on, it won't make it so.

The Quinault Tribe has a thriving hatchery program...but it has really phukked up the genetics of the upriver wild fish...what that will do in the long term to the health of that run is not yet known...it will be interesting to see what, if anything, happens there to those fish.

Who's predicting "doom and gloom" for that hatchery program?

Note that the OP streams are not the Puget Sound streams, and comparing the two for purposes of this thread doesn't answer any questions...they have their own set of cirucumstances and problems, with overharvest being the primary problem over there.

Fish on...

Todd