It's real easy to support species recovery/restoration until it makes ME actually do something.

Recovery of our anadromous salmonids will take massive expenditures in habitat restoration and will need to include dam removals, levee removals, de-hardening of shorelines, restoration of estuaries, restoration of floodplains. Then, we'll have to restore the marine ecosystem to support them. That includes Larry's favorite of pinniped control but will also include significant reductions in harvests of things that ultimately feed salmon.

And so much more. The salmon, SRKWs, Gray Whales, Humpback Whales, Sea Otters, all the seals, are in direct competition with us for food and space. For that reason, we won't save them.

It is quite true that the use of hatcheries has destroyed many runs of wild fish. Worse, it has allowed us to "mitigate" for other uses of the ecosystem. System can't produce enough wild fish? Plant more. Build a dam, destroy a river? Build a hatchery to mitigate. Without those hatcheries we will have to stop killing as many fish. With them, we can kill lots for a little while longer before the bill is due.