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Originally posted by Brant:
Maybe this question was addressed in some of the posts I have not had a chance to read yet.

If the new rule will require anglers to release any steelhead caught from April 1, 2004 to March 31, 2006 that is not marked as a hatchery fish by a missing adipose fin and a healed scar, how will the Queets and Salmon Rivers work? On the Salmon they mark hatchery fish differently, something about a credit card sized ventral fin.

Thanks for any answers.
That's regulated by the National Parks Service, not the WDFW. Good question.
Check out: http://www.nps.gov/olym/regs/fishregsrivers.htm
It's also to my understanding that the dorsals become like that unintentionally, during captivity in the hatchery when the steelies are smolts. It's not a form of marking fish.

J.D
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