Originally Posted By: Todd
For the fourth or fifth time, the Snider program is not being moved because it works or doesn't work...that question never even entered the equation.

The State is following the HSRG requirements, as they said they would...and part of the requirements calls for a Wild Steelhead Management Zone stream in each watershed, one that has zero hatchery steelhead.

For the Quillayute system the Sol Duc is the logical choice since it gets a very few Skamania fish, and the Snider fish.

Would you prefer they designate the Bogachiel as the WSMZ for the Quillayute system and discontinue all hatchery steelhead plants there?

Fish on...

Todd


Don't believe it's per watershed Todd, it's per ESU ... which is why the Clearwater was option #2. Now, what to do with the hundreds of Chambers fish that make it into the Duc every year, a good number of them are now harvested by anglers chasing Sniders and wild, without that effort, a far greater percentage of them will now attempt to cross with wild fish in there ... doesn't sound like the management zone will end up with the goal in either case, and I'd much rather have the Snider's crossing than the inbred Chambers fish.
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