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AUGUST 29, 2000

The Winthrop National Fish Hatchery in Winthrop, Washington, are planning on clubbing surplus spring chinook salmon to death and get rid of most of their eggs this week.

Don Sampson, chairman of the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission, criticized the practice, saying the eggs could be used elsewhere. But the fishery says the salmon and the eggs have to be killed to protect the gene pool of the wild chinook.

The salmon to be killed are of a different stock than the native one.

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Surplus salmon will be killed (AP 8/29)