OLYMPIA – With a strong run of fall chinook salmon returning to the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery, state fishery managers plan to transport up to 5,000 hatchery fish upriver and release them upriver above the last of three dams on the Cowlitz River.


Salmo no problem with trucking, it's the fact that at the same time were spending millions to switch over to selective fishing gear were also trucking hatchery fish to gravel to turn them into naturally spawning fish. Something that even 6 months ago if you would read the reports you would have been led to believe was impossible. Glad I didn't..