SAlmo g.
I would be very happy to supply you with the name of the man I talked to and I am quite positive as to what he told me about his efforts. Perhaps it was the delay that caused the salmon to not leave the sound in thier lifetime.His goal was to establish a better fishery in the sound that was not subject to the predation by nets and other commercial interests . It would seem this would be of extreme interest and importance to the state in terms of ecomonic impact. I did not,nor do not understand thier supposed rejection of his proposal. I stand corrected on the Panda, I was using old info and it has been classified as a bear. The Koala is not. My appology.
Dolphin
A case in point for the "hatchery " fish spawning in the "wild" in large numbers. Some years ago, the WDFG started a run of laterun hooknosed coho in the Willapa river using stock from the Satsop as I was told by the manager of the hatchery and the local gamewarden Jeff Wickerstam. It is the practice to clip these fish. As we fish this river now for this run, we will a lot of days release 3-4 times as many non-clipped as clipped. Does this mean the "hatchery " fish are spawning in large numbers successfully or are the hatchery personel not clipping the majority of the fish? Maybe we are just catching a few non-clipped over and over the same day? The manager told me he was directed to keep the clipped fish from going up Fork Creek but we have seen them jump the spillway in high water and continue up. Makes me wonder about the seemingly high amount of non-clipped in the system.This in part to the fact that they were introduced to the system. They also have said they are going to try to eliminate them as a "non-native" species. That would be a shame.