McMahon, I am very familiar with HGMP's for every hatchery program in Puget Sound. Those documents only describe the current operation of each program. They do not describe operational guidelines for each program. In Puget Sound, if you do a little research, you will find that the co-managers (both tribes and WDFW) have jointly developed and submitted to NOAA a single hatchery resource management plan that contains what they call low risk hatchery guidelines for every type of hatchery program. These are in Appendix A of that RMP if you wish to check. You will also find that in Chapter 6 of the Puget Sound salmon recovery plan sent to NOAA, the same co-managers commit to implementing those same guidelines. So you know, those guidelines were developed back in 1999, yet today, few if any program are consistent with them. Therefore I believe that my question to Two Dogs is quite valid. Are those still the guidelines (I have seen no others in writing)? If they are, when do you intend to make your hatchery programs consistent with them? If they are not your guidelines, where might I find them? All very reasonable questions in my mind.