If we are going to mitigate, then let's really mitigate. For the ecosystem. Put half a million Chinook above Chief Joe. All we seem concerned about is mitigating the catch. Actually, the NI catch. The Mitchell Act hatcheries should have been above the dams to get fish to return there. Still, there is no way to mitigate for Columbia River salmon, through natural production, as long as the dams exist. The Columbia from Bonneville to the inlet to Roosevelt is no longer salmon habitat.

I don't think we have the money, or the will, to mitigate the ecological loss that the dams and agriculture have brought. Use hatchery fish there. Concentrate the damage and restore other watersheds. I would prefer to see the Columbia downstream of Bonneville and the OP north of GH to be exclusively wild salmonids that exist at ecosystem appropriate levels. Above the dams? Meet ecological needs with hatchery production and adults passed above all dams. No need for DS passage as the goal is to get the ecological function of spawning salmon returned.