- putting those carcasses out is very labor intensive.

- Plus, of course, you need access to the stream(s).

- The disease protocols are a major constraint.

- The other piece is that all the carcasses that come back to all the hatcheries are (maybe) enough for one river system. We are in that big of a hole.

- Further, our Legislature has mandated where some of the fish go;

Always the insurmountable excuses, with the last one so strongly based in science, no wonder the return numbers tank...