Honestly I have no clue.. but I'll ask. Are hatcheries able to restart the silver salmon run if the pike are thinned?
Well, they can take fish from another run and plant them, but the particular strain of fish there had developed a specific set of traits over a long period of time and likely coped better than other fish from other streams. It should be a very good producer of salmon... a very small creek and a fair-sized lake with lots of frogwater for the fry to hide in.
Establishing runs in new systems has been hit and miss in the past.
