Originally Posted By: Rob Allen1
AuntyM i am not suggesting that hatcheries are on the way out.

what i am saying is that with a lack of comment on the issue it can only be assumed that the CCA is going to be a sport fisherman advocacy group and not a true conservation organization and will likely advocate for the use of hatchboxes as a means of wild fish restoration and thus they make themselves the enemy of wild fish.

habitat restoration and nutrient enhancment means absolutely nothing if the fish coming back are hatchery fish.


I hope they take no stand on hatcheries. The local chapters tend to make there own agendas. Right now it is focusing on harvest. Hatcheries are a divisive issue, but then again Rob, your a divisive person so there probably better with out you anyways.

As for the whole hatchery issue, there hasn't been a hatchery steelhead planted above tidewater on the neahlem (there is a run on the Nfork nehalem which comes in in tidewater) in 15 years and yet there runs are not booming like you think, in fact the wilson which is bombarded with hatchery fish still has about as many nates as the Nehalem. Hmm, there are much bigger issues that hatcheries affecting our native salmon and steelhead stocks. Ocean harvest, predation, and habitat are much bigger issues imho.
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