Washington Trout wants to restore wild salmon runs -- thats a great thing to shoot for, and in most paces a very doable goal. Heck, in Washington, most wild salmon runs are healthy. But, there are some chinook rivers out there, the Puyallup, Green, Skokomish (if the dams stay) that will never see a significant or sustainable return of wild chinook ever again.

Or for as long as Seattle and Tacoma are around. As long as the habitat stays screwed on those river systems, or unless we're ready to make some really hard choices, the habitat will stay bad, the only chinook we'll ever catch on them will be hatchery chinook.

WT wants restored wild runs, and they have no solution to the habitat question. So, they attack chinook hatcheries cause God knows, they don't do wild runs any favors either. Their solution is to shut down chinook hatcheries now and as we can, solve the habitat problem. Well, that means there won't be any chinook to catch in the mean time. That isn't a solution.