Doc the problem I have with that study is it was conducted on the Hood river. I don't see that study applying to my favorite stream, the Siletz, which has the only native summer run on the central/northern Oregon coast. All the summeruns get sorted at the trap and the natives are released to spawn above where they closed fishing. The hatches are rerun or are given to the local food bank. They used to have Alsea stock winteruns but stopped when they used to spawn with the summers, upriver, to create a third run late in fall. Now they have a successful winter broodstock run that return lower in the river. Any spawners should be allowed to return to the ocean. In conclusion all the summerun, hatchery or native, have the same genetics, even though they hatch them on the Salmon or Nestucca rivers.

What stock do the Hood river fish come from? Skammanian?