Ak Floater Said; I know fish are removed from hatchery pins and sold regularly on many rivers.
i am curious about this ak floater. As a former empoyee of the Dept. of Fisheries(remember them) at the Cowlitz hatchery i remember taking many thousands of pounds of perfectly good fish up in the hills to be buried, because there were strict rules and moral ethics (yes I said that in the same paragraph i wrote Dept. of F&W) that these fish could not be sold because we did not want public perception to be that the hatchery system was subsidising a commmercial enterprise. Keep in mind here you have to forget the whole haychery fish caught in a net thing...
I only ask because if in fact fish are being sold from the hatchery it is in direct conflict with the mission of the hatchery system or at least what it used to be. And no I am not an Idealist I guess it is more of a morbid curiosity about how far the administration has wanderd than anything else.
By the way I have been reading this board for awhile now and I have to tell you all, I am really impressed with the common sense and intelligence I see here. Thank You all for this venue..