Salmo G,
I always enjoy reading your dose of reality injected into this B.B. I do agree with Eric W that it would be good to hear this information from WDFW. The lack of creditable information released by WDFW on project such as this is the breeding ground for rumors and speculation.
On the hatchery vs wild fish debate I'm am getting a lot of conflicting information lately. On the one hand you have the school of thought that hatchery fish are detrimental to wild fish stocks and the only shure way to get healthy sustainable runs is with wild stocks in healthy rivers. This theory results in situations like the uproar over clubbing hatchery escapees in streams in Oregon. Now I see the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commision is sayiny they don't agree with NMFS concept of Evolutionarily Significant Units and conciders hatchery fish that spawn in the wild the same as wild fish. Under this theory no fin clipping is needed. They also want to expand the hatchery production. You would think the biologists could come to some concensus on what needs to be done. At any rate these are issues that I would like to be able to see the WDFW position on at their web site. It seems like WDFW is treating the public like so many children that can't handle contoversial information. I also know the WDFW gets the shaft by some of the public for a lot of fish related problems that they have no control over due to politics. I would like to see WDFW overhauled using ADF&G as the blueprint.