Finding a Way for Wild Elwha Steelhead
Four conservation groups, including the Washington-based Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC), are urging the federal court to halt planned releases of hatchery coho and steelhead into the Elwha River until it can determine whether these actions comply with or violate the Endangered Species Act. Plaintiffs say that hatchery output in the newly reopened Elwha River system would…