Originally Posted By: Lead Bouncer


You cant blame hatchery reduction for the poor escapement.



if the offspring of hatchery fish spawning in the wild are driving the native spawning population you sure can, some of the puget sound rivers have spawning populations that have 70 percent hatchery fish in them, do you think you can pull that 70 percent out and the 30 percent of wild fish will act like those 70 percent was never there ??