Being like the Cow is a good thing!? I guess it depends on how you look at it. How many wild steelhead are left in the Cow and I would speculate the hatchery factory had a part in it's wild fish demise.

Don't get me wrong, I believe that hatchery fish have a place for various harvest opportunities, but we need to be smarter about the role of hatcheries and utilize them so they don't further impact the wild fish(hatchery reform). A river system will only support a certain number of smolts, it's not always the answer to build another hatchery and dump a huge number of smolts which exceeds the available habitat in a system. Remember, in history, that hatcheries were typically put into place as a concession for something that has been lost. We need see the forest for the trees here.