Originally Posted by
WLREDBAND
Thanks for the insightful post, YC. I'm glad we have two very senior and qualified fish biologists (You and Fishtopher) still posting here giving scientific rationales for what we're all observing. Wish you both would both post more often here, but I do understand your "reluctance" for obvious reasons. I really like this part:
1-Churning out millions of fake hatchery fish didn't stop the collapse from occuring.
2-Reliance on hatcheries to restore abundance has been an epic level failure. As Andy mentioned, we wouldn't be having this discussion it it was working.
3- Blame placing in lieu of expending the effort to understand what the problems/challenges really are, won't lead to any viable solutions that produce favorable results.
4- The Feather has the capacity to produce far more streamborn Chinooks than most think it does.
Especially point #3. Since that seems to be what happens here the most.
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