Breezer -

Believe me; I both understand and appreciate that those working for the "Eagle Creek Hatchery" are both hard working and have a concern for the resource and the fishing that resource supports.

And I yes I do see that the Wallace hatchery program is at least a partially segregated program and in the short term the fish produced there and released at either the Wallace, Tulalip or Eagle Creek provide fishing benefits to the fishers. My concern is the impacts that those segregated hatchery coho may have on the wild population that is the back bone of the Snohomish coho fishery. I believe it still is the case that approximately 90% of the coho caught in the Snohomish system are from natural production. I would think it would be obvious that the long term viability of the Snohomish coho fishery is dependent on maintaining a productive as possible wild population in the basin.

Releasing a poorly segregated hatchery product to spawn in the wild with the naturally produced fish is counterproductive to that wild population.

RognSue-
I understand your desire to continue to fish and to preserve that opportunity. See the above comments. In any fishery where 90% of the run is wild the future of that fishery is dependent on that wild population.

curt