What a disaster. Seems a malfunctioning pump or filter is always to blame when we get a big hatchery die-off. In the end, this is just one more example of how hatcheries are hugely expensive, dreadfully inefficient, and hopelessly ineffective when compared to functioning, wild habitats. Wild salmon don't die when the power goes out, because nature's ingenious, gravity-fed, self-repleneshing system keeps cool, clean water running over their gills... For free!

Let's close the ocean and turn our rivers back into the state of the art hatcheries they were long before we decided we somehow knew better. That's how you improve Puget Sound fisheries and save the orcas (and the salmon, if anyone cares).