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Originally posted by POS Clerk:
Hatcheries were not created to provide angling opportunity for recreational fishermen. They were created in an effort to produce more salmon for commercial harvest. If this suit is an effort to reduce the negative consequences of poor hatchery practices then I wish them all the luck in the world. Naturally spawning, robust, wild populations are what all sport fishermen should consider the goal of our long-term strategies. It should not be the shortsighted, greed induced dogma of increased hatchery dependence…

POS Clerk
I have understood it to be that hatcheries were created to offset a decline in wild/native fish and were not the cause of a decline in wild fish,but are a result of this unfortunate fact.

It seems to me that the actual cause(s)of the native fish's decline needs to be addressed before we eliminate sport fishing/hatcheries and not after.

Very simple.No hatchery fish,no sport season.