I for one am all for salmon farming. Anything to hasten the demise of the commercial fisherman is fine with me after what they did to us in March on the Columbia And what if a locally adapted population of atlantic salmon did develop? That would be a fishery worth fishing - I caught one of these babys on a fly and they are beyond awesome - agressive beyound belief - they will chase a dry fly clear across a pool, and fight like hell - in the air all the time. If any kind of salmon can re-populate our polluted rivers under today's decimated habitat conditions I would be amazed - I'm sure if you brought a typical wild fish forward from a hundred years ago and put it a stream of today it would kak immediately And pollution, from fish shait? C'mon, there are probably not 10% of the salmon that used to swim in our waters 100 years ago around today - should be lots of capacity for a little extra fish excrement. This is just plain not a problem compared to all the point and non-point pollution contributed by all of us non-natives. How about more salmon farms and less people?