Frank Haw's book is excellent, so is his late friend's book (Pete Bergman) just released within the last year or so. If you want to know about our state's fishing/salmon conservation history they are a must read. They also are very prescriptive of what needs to be fixed and how to do it.

The Green River is nothing compared to what it once was, obviously. But it's Chinook are a hodge-podge of genetics just the same as almost all of the mid to south Puget Sound Chinook. Wild fish? The genetics of the wild ones are identical to the hatchery fish. If there are genetic differences it is due to natural divergence, or straying from outside their area. The powers to be need to challenge the feds when we are protecting the "wild" Chinook when they are clearly offspring of hatchery fish when we out-planted gazillions of hatchery salmon over the last century. Fill up the rivers like the Green and Puyallup with our best specimens and let them make babies. Natural selection, survival of the fittest and evolution will speed up the recovery of our so-called endangered Puget Sound Chinook if we augment the few "wild" fish who spawn naturally. We need advocacy and leadership from WDFW to challenge the feds, not to roll over and accept a misguided premise that there are truly wild sub-species of Chinook (which there aren't)because what WDFW is doing isn't working.