"When you go to war you don't tell your plans to both friends and your enemies. You never know who either are."

Wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia are in such bad shape that any organization that does not have a clear stand on hatchery and wild fish interactions and what should be done about them can only be viewed as an enemy.. That is why clear specific answers are so important. Especially in light of the hatchery program on Cedar creek..

it does wild fish no good at all to return in slightly larger numbers if they are inundated with hatchery fish on the spawning beds... Take a look at the Kalama hatchery coho spawn in the river by the thousands and yet wild coho are extinct..

Until i am sure that the CCA won't put Cedar creeks anywhere they can get funding for i view they as an enemy to wild fish..

they need to decide to be a true conservation organization not a sport fishermans advocacy group. I could care less if a wild steelhead dies in a commercial boat or fails to reproduce because of it's hatchery mate. It's still just a fish that won't have offspring and thus a hinderance to the survival of the species.