This all made me think back a bit. When I became involved in salmon restoration it was all about saving native populations. Then the politics of fish came full bore and it was "wild" fish or anything with a ad fin. That pissed me off then and still does. What native runs we have left should be of the utmost importance and a great efforts should happen to save them and allow them to flourish. To create a true " wild " salmon in a genetically degraded stock is a process of many generations under perfect conditions as evolution is a very slow process. Human impacts on salmon is a very rapid process and that is the rub. We need to choose and I choose native populations for max effort and then sort the rest out the best we can as many so called wild populations are simply hatchery established runs with a fin. I choose natives survival first.