Well according to WDFW:
100% Coho clipping since '93
100% Chinook clipping since '06, this will be the first 5 year 100% clipped Chinook return on the Humptulips.

The hatchery is NOT going to be removed, not yet anyway. The hatchery will produce Steelhead at the current rate and Coho production will continue, although severly reduced. The reason for the reduction is it cuts one position at the hatchery and cuts the cost of operating as many pumps as they do when they are in full production with Chinook. I know, again, their word, but it is the reason we are gonna get so have to go with it. Arguing the real reason is pointless and unproductive.

I hope this starts to tell a major picture of the health of the Humptulips River Native Chinook return, this assumes that they are actualy clipping every fish they release. I know, it is their word but have to start somewhere and believe someone sooner or later or nothing productive can come from anything.

Sounds like I have found something to make a whole hearted effort in and do my part in. Pathetic to wait this long but better to do something sooner or later. Anyone willing to join me?

Rivrguy, whatever information you have I could really use it. Even if I can't share it yet, if I am gonna start to try and do something I need all the facts I can get.

The Humptulips system is getting a makeover that would make Zha Zha Gabor look like a teenager unless these years of road delays and culvert improvement is all for not.

Jgrizzle, I don't know what the "dirty little secret" is. But I suspect that that native runs might be stronger than they may be thought. All I have gotten so far is that there is a plan that has been suggested to stop hatchery produced from competing with native fish. The mass making plan is all part of it from what I have been told.

There are systems in Grays Harbor that have a 50:50 marked unmarked policy. The Satsop Hatchery is this way, what the reason I don't know for sure yet but I plan to find out. Something to do with hatchery natural spawning survival or something like that. More details to come if I can find them.

I like to give the benefit of the doubt until I find facts. Maybe, just maybe there is a plan that we can all live with that just may make fishing even better in the future instead of making it as bad as some may think it will get. Blind hope, maybe, but hope none the less.

If anyone else has contacts to call, minutes to read, plans to read or anything else that I can get my hands on please send it to me. I have the time to do this and will make every effort to do it the best I can.

Don't get me wrong, it sucks and I hate the idea but it is not gonna do any good to get angry about it and do nothing.