Originally Posted By: Lifter99
RUNnGUN, you have to doubt that there will ever be hatchery steelhead planted in the Puyallup again. One of the last years that it was planted only a couple of steelhead returned the Voight's Creek hatchery out of a plant of 200,000 smolts. Kind of a waste of money for WDFW. Sad.


My short term memory is still fairly good and I recall that the grand pronouncements for the revitalized Puyallup hatchery included 300k steelhead.

Edit: When asked how those steelhead will contribute to our fisheries the response from WDFW was that they will be part of a recovery effort. That means no fishery. Kind of like the 800k White River springers they plan on propagating there. We may benefit from any Coho if they ultimately decide to raise some Coho. Orca recovery may change those plans.


Edited by Larry B (12/23/18 09:35 PM)
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