Ickstream and fish culture-
I can see you are just trying to jerk my chain!
The Situk has more natural preditors per mile of river than any river in Washington!
All those 14,000 natives swim past our lodge, yet the Situk continues to put out the largest run of Native Steelhead probably in the world.

I have seen those Steelhead out of the great lakes and they are nice big fish.

Todd-You mention fry plants not working to well?
We used to run by sled 5 gallon buckets of fry to all the major bars in the Skykomish and walk them into the Sultan and for years had great returns, now I realize those returns were being caught by a much smaller population! We used to fish Summer Runs some days all alone on the Sky, but it sure seemed like those returning fish were big and in real good shape. Once the seeding was stopped by the state, it was a matter of about 5 years and it was over.

Same thing with our Coho pens on the Sky, those fish were moved to all the little creeks and they did great, but once the seeding was stopped it all went downhill.
I realize there are other factors involved, but it just does not seem that bashing hatchery fish and hatcheries into non-exisitance is the answer.