This information was included in presentation by Bill McMillan and thought it interesting for for sharing.

The economics of hatchery programs: "What you spend is what you get". WDFW is heavily invested in hatchery programs, much more so than in habitat/wild stock programs. In the early 1990's, WDFW was spending about $26 million a year on hatchery steelhead programs, but only about $1.5 million on wild fish programs.
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