Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
I want to save the parts..... I want to keep the Chambers Creek steelhead program - at Chambers Creek, both as a laboratory and as a safety deposit box. The Chambers Creek fish cultured at the other PS locations are more or less expendable at this time when their financial and biological effectiveness is so questionable.

Sg, it's a little too late for this approach. There is no longer a steelhead program at Chambers Creek. The last releases from there were around 1996 or 1997. The program basically had no returns to the Chambers Creek rack since several years earlier (1991 or so) and had to be supported by transferring eggs back from some the its derivative populations. So even in the hatchery environment, this population wasn't productive enough to sustain itself especially after the down-turn in survival in the late 80's - early 90's.