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"Hatchery produced salmon and steelhead successfully established to provide harvest fisheries often have had negative impacts on wild conspecifics because management decisions and hatchery operations were unrelated to the biological needs of either the introduced or the recipient populations. Reforms, therefore, are necessary in the man- agement of fisheries that will address the biological needs of anadromous salmonid populations, and reforms are necessary in hatchery programs that will assure hatchery fish are compatible genetically and behaviorally with the recipient population. Artificially propagated salmon and steelhead populations repre- sent the evolutionary legacy and genetic constitution of the native fish from which they originated. Hatchery fish, therefore, can main- tain population sizes sufficiently large to avoid inbreeding and genetic drift, maintain and increase genetic diversity, and provide security against risk of extinction by supplementing, enhancing, and otherwise sustaining the parent population. Excess hatchery fish from the local population should not be prevented from spawning in the wild and contributing to the wild segment of the population" salmonchronicles.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/brannon-afs-hatchery-study.pdf

A big decline in chambers creek steelhead is the fact that city of Tacoma controlled algae blooms in Steilacoom lake with copper. If you don’t know copper is extremely poisonous to anadramous fish and they contribute this to a big part of the original stock decline in the 90’s.

great presentation, no need for hatcheries

best restoratio, would be to remove the dams, whose hydropower can be replaced w/ new SMR technology, about to be commercialy available

bet the salmon recovery would do much better by addressing the dam's mortality, new energy technology is on the horizon and need to be conxicdfdc as a replacement to the Skagit river project hydropower, terra power in Wyoming starts p their demonstration reactor 2028

it's exciting to watch the Skagit recover

can city light improve restoration by removing the gorge dam and producing hydropower from the other dams

Every sq mile counts. 2 miles above a culvert or small dam. X 100. Fish.

Fabulous

Long live the Steel. 🐟🖤

Correlate not necessarily causation. So many factors to consider other than riparian habitat quality. What's happening out in our oceans? International waters?

Where is part 2? I'd like to see what happened after the restoration?

Looks like a fantastic project, huge potential. I hope you will strive to give the floodplain areas permanent protection if they are not already to prevent future development.

Knowledge!

Thank you for honesty of this video.. Life can return and probably will. It takes a lot of people and commitment for this to happen . There are many things that are legal but not right , you just have to make your own decision..

Watched this video many times over the last year. Has the 6 episode series been released somewhere else? Think I'll go fish the McMillin drift this evening for coho.

Creating a larger flood plain and potentially pushing home owners out is not gonna fix the steelhead populations. Diverting the 3rd largest river in the state and expecting it to go where you want it to? If you wanna save what's left of a nearly demolished fishery, close the river to not only sport fishing, but tribal as well. Open your eyes and see the real problems

I am very excited to see this series. I like that you're featuring a contrite Bill Herzog. He's a sportfisherman, recognizing sportfishing's role in the decline of wild steelhead. So, starting with a good, balanced view (not zealotry). I'll be interested to see if any other players will recognize their role in the decline. Like management, tribal fishers, heavy industry. But whatever the case, your series is going to generate alot of conversation! And that's good.

hat's off to you guys that do the important work for all us sportsmen.& the next generations who fish steelhead

this guy sounds high as a kite

It's ok to call this thing an oxbow lake. You will want to make sure ground water is entering the river directly without warming as it passes through the oxbow. Take a closer look at the composition of the substrates between the oxbow and the river to predict critical ground water transmission rates.

If you're going to post online you've got to have better sound.