While not all streams/rivers in the "Harbor District" (WRIAs 22,23,24) received plants on an annual basis, from 1952 to 1973, the total salmon plants (for all species, but predominately Chinook and coho) by the WA Dept of Fisheries were:

Fry
17,653,498

Fingerlings
87,412,536

Yearlings
45,905,585

Total plant
150,971,619

Total pounds
2,519,023

The following drainages were stocked one or more times:

Grays Harbor
Duck Lake 1972 4,980 Masu (Cherry salmon)
Campbell Slough
Humptulips River
Damon Creek
Big Creek
Stevens Creek
Donkey Creek
O'Brien Creek
Chenois Creek
Hoquiam River
E F Hoquiam River
M F Hoquiam River
Chehalis River
Wishkah River
Wynoochee River
Aberdeen Lake
Unknown
Satsop River
W F Satsop River
Canyon River
E F Satsop River
M F Satsop River
Satsop Springs
Bingham Creek
Phillips Creek
Cloquallum Creek
Wildcat Creek
Delezenne Creek (sp?)
Johns River
Andrews Creek
Porter Creek
Rock Creek
Black River
Waddell Creek
Skookumchuck River
Newaukum River
N F Newaukum River
S F Newaukum River
S F Chehalis River
Stillman Creek
Elk Creek
Seven Creek
Eight Creek
Swem Creek
Stowe Creek
Smith Creek
Thrash Creek
W F Chehalis River
E F Chehalis River
Sherman Creek
North River
Smith Creek
Clearwater Creek
Elkhorn Creek
Davis Creek
Little North River
Fall River
Willapa River
Johnson Slough
S F Willapa River
Rue Creek
Wilson Creek
Mill Creek
Stringer Creek
Trap Creek
Falls Creek
Fork Creeks
Half Moon Creek
Fern Creek
Niawtakum
Palix River
M Palix River
Canyon Creek
N Nemah River
Williams Creek
Cruiser Creek
S Nemah River
Mid Nemah River
Naselle River
S F Naselle River
Beam Creek
O'Connor Creek
Salmon Creek
N F Nasellle River
Alder Creek
Bear River

Total releases, across the state, in the same time frame (1952-1973) were:

Fry
283,385,283

Fingerling
154,994,857

Yearlings
404,282,085

Total Fish
842,662,225

Total Pounds
27,978,285

From 1976 to 1986, the WDF releases (statewide) totaled:

2,487,877,169 fish

An average of about 207,000,000 per year. This total doesn't include schools, cooperatives, tribal, or federal hatchery releases.

In 1987, all of the hatcheries in the state (state, tribal, federal, cooperative, schools) released a total (all species) of:

337,742,414

With the current discussions about the viability of hatchery fish, one has to wonder how far back do we need to go to determine whether a run is truly "wild" or does it have an appreciable amount of hatchery genetics and the subsequent off-spring are "natural origin returns". Maybe some of the fishing, in the good old days, was due to hatchery releases....




Edited by bushbear (11/14/09 01:54 AM)