Nobody...the sporties, the commercials, the tribes, or the States, actually want to recover wild stocks in the Columbia River.

If overharvest and too many hatchery fish on the spawning grounds are significant problems, then the solution to those problems takes one sentence, a couple of strokes of a pen, and not only is cost-effective, but actually would save millions of dollars...

Don't put in so many hatchery fish, and don't kill so many wild fish.

You won't find any of those four groups supporting either one of those goals.

They all start with the premise that we must have high amounts of hatchery fish (which is the cause of the problems, both overharvest and spawning hatchery fish)...they intentionally and vehemently support the policies that cause the problems, then they intentionally create halfass "solutions" to the problems, solutions that don't solve $hit...

...and due to all parties having an addiction to hatchery fish that makes meth-heads and heroin junkies look like casual users, everyone seems to happily accept the fact that they are the problem, not the solution, and just ignore it.

Fish on...

Todd