We have been planting fish in rivers for decades, the clipped fish spawn with unclipped fish far to often and have been doing so for 40plus years. There are no true Native fish left, they are all muts. all have hatchery in thier background at some point in time. I have caught spawners in five coastel systems this year that are missing high fins, even up until yesterday. they are breeding with wild fish today as they have been doing for decades. But now they will come back with high fins and no longer be Muts, but the much admired Wild fish. It's time to increase the Broodstocking with fish from that system and not introduce fish from outside the system, into the program...... Native fish are a thing of the past. extinct, We now have just Wild fish, sporting High fins and Heinz 57 blood flowing thru there veins. they breed with who ever, when the opertunity arises. Just like dogs, they are not all pure breeds unless we intervien.... Lets intervien and boodstock.... create purebloods and not mudbloods... Native doesn't equal Wild, Native truely no longer exists... Remember the reports and figures you read, can be stated or malnipulated any way the creator intends. an old saying says "figures don't lie, but liers figure". fish on, Matt