I don't go to the OP to bonk fish. Plenty of bonkable cookie cutters around here. :-)

Mostly I am curious. Tell me why is is a bad thing. I see the program as working, but I guess I don't know anything about the finite details. The Snider fish that I have caught didn't seem any different than the wild fish I caught, in fact they were more aggressive.

As far as science, from what I read, there is little science and a lot of speculation. I read "Review of the Snider Creek Steelhead Program" by WDFW. The document clearly states that the count metrics may be, and probably are inaccurate due to the location of the clip. Near the end of the paper, it lists the goals and it shows that they are mostly met, or at least the net effect was beneficial to the river as far as the metric can tell. The is a LOT of "we don't really know this and we really can't ascertain that".
Where is a better document?

What I see is people classifying the Snider brooder fish with other hatchery fish with no differentiation. I concur that true hatchery fish have no place on the Sol Duc.

If the program is truly a bad thing, then it should go. That hasn't been proven to me yet.

Tell me more.