I guess my question to you is where are you going to get any broodstock? There is broodstock available with the chambers creek run. These were early timed/altered steelhead to not impact wild fish. With stocks being so low with all fish, getting any sizable amount to bring a run to life is not very probable. Trying to have hatchery fish competing with late run steelhead is not doable, the reason for altering the chambers creek fish to be early timed. These fish have been being used for over 50 years. I doubt they were always small fish.

Rest assured that if NOAA is not going to stand up to WFC on this, they surely are not going to on anything else. It is their job to approve these HGMPs, which they have averted for years.

Want to see all hatcheries go on the chopping block, sit back and do nothing. We have had to intervene a couple of times to keep this on track.

In Senator Pearsons hearing, NOAAs Rob Jones explained that they have sat on these HGMPs because they would rather have the state get sued than them. So this is what this is about, not allowing NOAA to run the clock out on our hatcheries.

If they dont approve this run, they sure arent going to approve another one. Once its gone, kiss it good by.