Eric, I too have a hard time sitting around waiting for action. If I knew of way to get some dollars directly into producing results of healthy salmon/steelhead runs I would be first in line to write a check. I really don't think the cuts in hatchery funding are a shortage of money, it is based more in policy and politics. A few months ago when they were annoucing hatchery cuts I figured it was just a function of the policy of moving away from hatcherys to more natural spawning runs. Now I read all this arguing and disagreement going on between the biologists and fishery experts about hatcherys vs wild salmon, it's hard to figure what the heck is going to happen. I'm ready to throw my hands up and go fish for whatever is legal. I just hope the scientists and politicians get it sorted out in time. One thing for shure, I'm not voting for Slade Gorton, I don't care who runs against him.