It is a crying shame what has happened to the Thompson but it has been on its heels for a long time now. How the BC government can justify requiring a classified water stamp for the Thompson, when the returning adults has been less than 1,000 adults many times over the past few years is beyond me. I'm all for paying classified waters if the water is truly deserving of classified status. The Thompson is a HUGE system. To think there are so few fish to seed literally hundreds of river miles is extremely sad.