Originally Posted By: salmon bake
Boater you are clueless. I think it might be you that doesn't read up on what's happening. My point was that once the wild chinook genes are lost on the columbia, the whole entire fishery will collapse. Simple point boater. This discussion is about the columbia. BOATER, start a grays harbor thread if that's what you want to talk about, otherwise go back to mending your gillnets.


i said the grays river in my post not grays harbor and i didnt edit it you can ask one of the moderators to check, this following is the hsrg recommendation for that river and its a perfect example of what happens when you pull all the hatchery fish out of a river, the natural spawning population falls on its face,

http://www.hatcheryreform.us/hrp_downloa...ok_01-31-09.pdf