Well lets do this. The hatchery Chinook ( Chehalis side ) come from the East Fork Satsop, are broodstocked each year and are the primary tool used to rebuild the stock as it had been harvested down to levels that almost wiped it out and restrained all mainstream harvest. You guys need to quite packing hatchery v wild issues from other streams / regions into the Chehalis. It has always been managed for natural production of all species and NOT maximized to harvest down to hatchery escapement. That it has been mismanaged for the natural production is apparent but that had zip, zero, nada, just plain nothing to do with hatchery production numbers.

Now in the case of the Humptulips one can make a case for the hatchery influence being to great ( and it is particularly with Coho ) but it is a different scenario than the Chehalis.

More video links of the Commission Meeting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTPBQN4uOqs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTPBQN4uOqs