Carcasses for the stream results from bypass of hatchery fish that spawn and die in the streams. A simple fact of hatcheries that not every fish comes back to the hatchery.

Chum have zero hatchery value on the Humptulips because none are planted now. Even a small number means raising money for the hatchery that is being stripped every year. For those that fish the entire state and could care less about one river, more power to ya. I fish Grays Harbor, it matters to me.

Chinook still bite a hook here. Chum are more than cat food and eggs here. Chum fight like a fish here and not a dead stick. Asked the wrong question in the wrong place I guess. Seems like a recurring theme. If it is not in my back yard............

Give me a better idea since so many think it is such a bad one. Nothing else I have proposed has gotten any support so someone must have a better one. Or is it all just nay say and no better ideas?

Lose the Humptulips hatchery and I lose 1/3 of the rivers I fish for salmon in and 100% of my Chinook opportunity. How many can say the same about their back yard?