For quite a while, the PNP facilities were rather close to the model of how to have hatcheries and wild fish. A concept lost in the lower 48. The PNPs concentrated fisheries where the hatchery fish returned; few HORs were found on the grounds and NOR escapements were at ecologically appropriate levels. The current demise is coming about because the N Pacific can no longer support that amount of juvenile mouthes to feed. Whether it ever could is a different question but now, with climate change, massive changes in the N Pacific, and harvest all up and down the food chain there isn't enough to go around.

There needs to be a paradigm shift.