We've lost 97% of the abundance of our wild steelhead in Puget Sound

Testimony from Jamie Glasgow of the Wild Fish Conservancy before the Washington State Natural Resources and Park Committee hearing on the Puget Sound hatchery settlment.

Comments

[ike]

wow...facts dont mean much. these feather fluffers willing to risk it all? why not...gona get paid, right
hatcheries have their place, mayb to stock a lake here and there is ok, but to supplement an anadromous river with non native fish is just not common sense.......FACT-.each animal on this earth adapted to their watershed or region..Fact a cold water species cant live in warm water....Fact - fish from watersheds far away are transported to a hatchery that has different genetics, water temps, quality and gradient.......do you think a fish from a tiny river like the mad should be spawned with a fish from the trinity......TWO COMPLETLEY DIFFERENT SPECIES

MAN IS NOT A GOD, OR A CREATOR OR WHATEVER ....HE IS AN EXPERIMENOR...thanks a lot Baird for that first hatchery at the mouth of the MIGHTY MCCLOUD......planted fish all over the world never thinking that one day it would be killing the fish all over the world.....waht was you r thought on the last hatchery fish you caught? nasty....weak....scarred and wierd looking
what about that wild fish ----beautiful...strong...acrobatic...majestic...preciouse......GET THE PICTURE?
we will see the end of salmon and steelhead in the next 25 yrs...the people in control are gona make sure of it.....if the rivers are dead then who wants to enjoy them.........well the government of course....EDUCATE AS MANY AS YOU CAN THAT WATER IS NOT THE NEXT OIL, OR GOLD.....IT IS THE BLOOD OF LIFE AND YOU CANT LIVE WITHOUT GOOD BLOOD!!! "FREE THE RIVERS" John Muir........and "free the fish of slow genocide"ike

speak up!!!!!! fight!!! we have kids and grandkids and need to get a grip

[dmoney]

"waht was you r thought on the last hatchery fish you caught? nasty....weak....scarred and wierd looking". Really? Where are you fishing? That comment is so off-base it's ridiculous. I see hatchery winter steelhead and trout all the time and I can tell you I'm not thinking "nasty, weak, scarred and weird looking". These aren't farmed fish (in the case of the steelhead), these are fish that have had to adapt quickly to the natural environment and survive the same gamete of hazards as the wild fish, eating natural food for most of their lives. There may be some minor dorsal fin erosion, but other than that these are beautiful fish that I would be more than happy to catch, and yes bring home to eat!