Since we are mentioning examples of successful hatchery operations the following article about the Baker Lake sockeye might be of interest.

The Baker sockeye that boast ancestry to the introduced fish that parented the hundreds of thousands of naturally spawning Lake Washington sockeye nearly faced extinction.

Although they will never flourish as a truly wild stock so long as the Baker Dams are in place without natural fish passage accommodations, they are now returning annually in numbers that are probably greater than those ever seen by mankind before.

And for this we can thank the PUD operated spawning and passage operations.

See: Seattle Post Intelligencer Article .

Grandpa,
Do you know if thats the kinda hatchery work Long Live The Kings is doing on Hood Canal??
The Rivers Inlet type program?

duro..I do not know much about the hood canal hatchery but I'll find out and report back...thanks for asking

Thanks for the linc AuntyM

AuntyM

Thanks for the link....Hopefully the nay sayers can read this and see that good things do come from some hatchery programs. Wild fish can be helped along by programs such as this . Reforms are happening despite what WT and alot of their blind supporters would have us believe.

The end goal of these programs is a selfsustaing population of fish.Ultimately no hatchery would be needed.Succes is measured in these brood stock reproducing on there own.Ultimately no hatchery.

Ramon must have forgot about this or does the no responce mean that WT cant define what an exceptable hatchery is? I still dont think they would ever endorse any hatchery program no matter how perfect it is.

I see ramons been back maybe he can answer what he said he would on this thread.

can you post a link to a perfect hatchery, i`d like to read about it, thanks.

Boater,
You better read my post again you did not understand it. I didnt say that our hatcherys were perfect.I did say WT wouldnt endorce one if there was such a thing.