I think if you check you will find that the majority (all?) of the money supporting the Samish hatchery comes from the State. Let's remember that hatchery has been in operation for more than a century (pre-dating the Boldt decision by many decades).

Further while it may be true that the tribal fishery catches the majority of the fish (though I don't know the %) in Samish/Bellingham Bay those returning Samish adult enter a number of non-tribal fisheries in significant numbers. Besides the recreational fishery they are caught in good numbers in the non-treaty commercial fishery (just heard the other day as of last week non-treaty gill net fishery had taken over 4,000 fish), the recreational fishery in the marine waters (especially eastern San Juan) inlcuding a number of mix stocked areas (both summer and winter.

wria -
Is right in that those Chinook are not native to the Samish (Green River fall Chinook were the source). Those hatchery fish do have impacts on other fish stocks; during their hatchery rearing, out migration, and natural spawninng.

I'm not sure what all the above has to do with the main topic of this discussion.

Tight lines
Curt