Been over 3 years since we visited this issue.

This document spells out the 3 year plan for 2009, 2010, and 2011.

http://www.psp.wa.gov/downloads/SALMON_RECOVERY/2009_workplan_updates/2009_stillaguamish_update.pdf

The cost of implementation is a staggering 8.2 million per year... 4.6 million for capital expenditures and 3.6 million for operations.

Of that, 358K per year is budgeted for hatchery operations.

Would love to see the stats on the most recent returns of Stilly chinook. It would be interesting to see the marginal recovery cost for each incremental chinook that comes back to the system.

I imagine it rivals the cost of producing CR spring chinook.
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