No matter how much was spent at Landsburg, the math said, at the very, very best, that the berzillion dollar hatchery would add, at most, one or two seasons every twenty years.

Talk about a colossal waste of money...especially considering the "at the very best" is far from where it has been, and it has added exactly "zero" fishing days.

The only way to have a consistent LW Sockeye fishery is the drastically lower the escapement goals. The bottleneck in LW is not the amount of smolts being produced, it's that there isn't nearly enough food in LW to support an increase in sockeye numbers.

Keep the goals where they are at, maybe the very rare fishery is added by the hatchery.

Lower the goals, and there will be consistent fisheries, and the hatchery will have added almost nothing to them, in terms of days or numbers.

Fish on...

Todd