Originally Posted By: Elijah
The steelhead are an example of how stopping hatchery production does not result in an increase in wild production to recovery and fishable levels. All of you who think that stopping hatchery production will bring back the native fish to fishable levels are ignorant. The Nisqually steelhead are a prime example of what you get when you stop hatchery production. Keep it going and we will not have any fishing in this state for all of you hatchery haters (i.e. Fly Fishermen).


If I recall correctly, they stopped planting hatchery steelhead in the Nisqually in the early 80's, so almost a decade before it closed to steelhead fishing in 1993.
Closing fishing hasn't brought back wild fish either, regardless of whether hatchery fish were planted or not.

Since when did all fly fisherman hate hatchery fish?
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