Originally Posted By: laterun
JG
I still think the way to ensure that NO hatchery fish get onto the spawning beds would be to erect a barrier dam like is on the Cowlitz on any river that has a native run. This with a fish sorting facility would all but insure no passage of non wild fish. I think we all pretty much agree the numbers of "wild" fish on most rivers are probably miss/non clipped hatchery origin fish.
I was told once that the tribes were against clipping all hatchery fish. Does anyone know if this is the case?


Great idea but like Keith states, this would only work if the state cliped 100% of the hatchery fish. At the fish collection facility at Barrier they count misclipped hatchery fish as wild. So in this example hatchery fish with adipose fins are being trucked up river and released and released into the upper Cowlitz watershed.