I was referring to chinook parr and smolts. I must admit to some confusion
regarding the WDFW's press release (which I have read), not having read the
newspaper article that you refer to. This is the first year that spring
chinook returns from the initial plantings by the Yakama tribe were
expected, but the WDFW press release implies, without actually saying as
much, that these are wild fish. So far as coho are concerned, I read just a
couple of weeks ago that the tribe is taking over two of the ponds along I-5
near Cle Elum to rear coho which, according to the article, have been
extinct in the Yakima system for seventy years. Can anyone clarify any of
this?
