A little more info for you freespool.....

Lower Columbia River Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) is proposed as threatened on June 14,
2004.
Status: NMFS concludes that the LCR coho ESU includes all naturally spawned populations of
coho salmon in the Columbia River and its tributaries from the mouth of the Columbia up to and
including the Big White Salmon and Hood Rivers. Twenty-one artificial propagation programs
are considered to be part of the ESU as NMFS has determined that these artificially propagated
stocks are genetically no more than moderately divergent from the natural populations (NMFS,
2004b). Currently Kalama coho programs are not one of 21 artificial propagation programs
proposed for listing (NOAA 69 FR 33101; 6/14/2004). Late stock coho (or Type N) were
historically produced in the Kalama basin with spawning occurring from late November into
March. Early stock coho (or Type S) were historically produced in the Kalama basin with
spawning occurring from October to mid November. Columbia River early and late stock coho
produced from Washington hatcheries are genetically similar. Kalama River wild coho run is a
fraction of its historical size. An escapement survey in the late 1930s observed 1,422 coho in the
Kalama River. In 1951, WDF estimated coho escapement to the basin was 3,000; both early and
late coho were present. Hatchery production accounts for most coho returning to the Kalama
River. Natural coho production is presumed to be very low. Electrofishing for juveniles in the
Little Kalama River (a major tributary downstream of Kalama Falls) in 1994 and 1995 showed no
coho but good numbers of steelhead. Coho have been planted in the Kalama basin since 1942;
releases were increased substantially in 1967. The coho program at the two Kalama hatchery
complexes was greatly reduced in recent years because of federal funding cuts; the remaining
coho program is about 700,000 smolts released annually, split evenly between early stock (reared
at Fallert Creek) and late stock (reared at Kalama Falls). (LCFRB Kalama Subbasin Report
Volume II, Chapter 10).

Odd huh?? Is that suggesting interbreeding?

Keith