I don't see where they are considering closing it...looks like they're ending outplanting, which should have ended years ago, and cutting production a bit, and sending those fish that are cut over to another facility "in the watershed", which means either Reiter or the Wallace.

While I don't see how reducing the plants at Tokul proper will do anything helpful for the wild steelhead because the run timing is so different for those fish and the hatchery drones, at least it looks like killing the whole hatchery program is not on the table.

I think I'd recommend a compromise position...end the outplanting at the Raging and Tolt Rivers, but either keep production steady at the hatchery proper, or even transfer the numbers from the Raging and Tolt over to the hatchery releases.

Fish on...

Todd