Moldy Chum posted an impressive list of actions you can take to rid our little rock of another damaging steelhead hatchery, this one the Snider Creek version on the Olympic Peninsula’s Sol Duc River.
You can read Moldy’s post (it lays out the whole argument, including links to other sources), or simply invest a few seconds sending an automated comment (not as much impact as a personal email, but fast) at this link.
From Moldy:
We need you and your friends that are interested in saving wild steelhead in this river to write the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) quickly and tell them it is time to establish wild steelhead gene banks and management areas where wild fish can reproduce without the impacts of hatchery fish.
This action will allow the early run of wild stocks to recover genetically and productively to a level similar to those of the 1950s—prior to hatcheries—and create an early fishery as valuable as the late winter run.
Over the last 25 years the Snider Creek Hatchery on the Sol Duc River has negatively altered the genetics of the population, reduced its productivity and encouraged increased fishing effort for hatchery fish, which has been detrimental to the wild run.
Click here, and in about 20 seconds, your voice can be heard.
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