Originally Posted By: Carcassman
Larry, the access decision was specifically centered on salmon and was in the Columbia. And, they could cross uplands to access the fishing site.

As to GA, it is primarily a mitigation hatchery with funding provided by Tacoma. Or it was when I was there. So, they can't as easily close it but they could just give it to the Skoks and let them work with Tacoma.Plus, they could remove the state-funded portion. But, they can close the other two upstream from GA as well as Hoodsport.

The court case was United States v. Winans, 198 U.S. 371 (1905).

Unless things have changed dramatically at George Adams under the Skokomish settlement with Tacoma City Light, the amount of money that TCL was providing for GA was a very small part of the total hatchery budget - only about enough to fund the relatively small coho program if I recall. Of course things may have changed since I was knowledgeable about the mitigation that TCL was paying to WDFW.