When there are something like 20,000 wild springers on the spawning grounds, and over 150,000 hatchery springers that don't get caught...how much difference will catching five or ten...or fifty...thousand more hatchery fish make on the spawning grounds?

Hint: None.

This is especially true when I believe the HSRG recommends no more than 15% of the entire spawning population should be hatchery fish.

In that case, the non-tribal commercials would need to harvest 147,000 more hatchery springers.

This, of course, is impossible.

Even with dynamite.

Not to mention that the upstream treaty tribes probably wouldn't be too cool with it.

I know I sound like a broken record, but here goes again...

Why are sportfishermen jumping for joy over a program that would have no benefit to ESA spring Chinook, and would make sportfishing opportunities diminish?

Hell, even WDFW and ODFW admit that the entire point of this is to allow the commercial guys to harvest more fish, and make more money...why is there a handful of sporties who are the only ones who think this is a good idea, besides the commercial industry and their caretakers?

Fish on...

Todd