Well, CF, here's are real "dollars and sense" answer, particularly for those waste in government freaks - it costs an average of $150 per returning fish (statistics compiled by the USFWS on the Columbia River) to raise them in a hatchery. Ma Nature does it for free. So every one of those fish you bonked and threw in the freezer cost 4 times more than your fishing license, or 5 times more than your vehicle license after I-man. There is your "waste in government"

Me? I don't complain about waste in government and am glad to bonk the hatchery fish. But mostly I fish because I like to fish and I like to catch something, and I'm more than willing to go to the horrendous effort of sorting through all those wild fish to obtain a hatchery fish or two - I mean, I know it's a real sacrifice but someone's got to do it