SG?
How much spawning goes on below the dams? How effective is it with mass fluctuations in water level? If the wild fish are not spawning down below on the lewis and cowlitz, then how are the hatchery fish jeopardizing anything? All we see right now is large blanket of hatchery reduction in rivers that, may yield no increases. I dont know what the spawning activity is in the NFL below the dams, but since the collectors are $50-100 million and they are working on the first one, its going to be a long time before that experiment is going to yield results, since there are three dams. I do not know what collection facilities are in use now.

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All spawning is below the Merwin Dam in the NF of the Lewis... There is a broodstock program starting in action as we speak... We'll see what happens... Sure has helped the Kalama River....

Keith