2001 was the first major decline in Wild Steelhead on the Snoqualmie. Why did the hatchery and wild fish work so well for over sixty years and then all off the sudden start to fail? Did the hatchery fish get better at spawning? There has never been any genetic research on the SNOQUALMIE RIVER's fry population to see if the hatchery fish are in fact integrating. At the meeting the WDFW was not able to produce one case where this theory of conservation has shown to be successful. If this theory was so sound why then would the WDFW then contradict itself be almost doubling the hatchery fish in the Sky?


What a mess!