1. A dead river like this is the rivers we should be having hatcheries on.
2. Hatch smolts will be spending very little time within the system as they could be released into the lower river and migrating directly to the sea. Smolts taken care of within a hatchery facility.
Couldn’t agree with you more in regards to the logging....
Just thinking of a way to keep upper island economy going as well as providing opportunities for recreational fisherman.
Almost all of our fishing is only being held in place to due to hatcherys,as all of our steelhead stocks within B.C. except for MAYBE a handful are in bad shape.
Or we just keep it dead and remember what used to be