If you looked out in your driveway tomorrow and saw a Ranger in place of your Toyota, you'd still have a truck. But now your truck handles like a shopping cart, burns oil, and the transmission drops every 2 years.

(my best attempt at a rvrfshr analogy, poor I realize...)

Hatchery fish have created viable spawning populations in some rivers. Skamania summers aren't bad at it. And once they do it, they compete with the native fish (winters and other summers) for food, gravel, and everything else they should have no part of.

Sad thing is that a lot of well-intentioned "recovery" funds are currently being filtered into broodstocking. Where's the hatchery demolition funding?

UF