I think WT goes after hatcheries for many reasons.

One of the biggest reasons is this in my opinion, if hatcheries are gone the excuse for harvest of excess is gone. If excess harvest is gone there is no need for hatcheries which add to and help cover up the problems anyways.

The sad thing is that we have become dependant on hatcheries because of our greed for harvest and oportunity. Since we are so greedy and hardly anyone will make sacrifices of any kind to save the fish or give them a chance to come back they say that hatcheies arnt the problem its the gill netters or its habitat.

No people for the most part it is hatcheries because if we didnt have hatcheries we would see far less gill netting, far less impact on wild stocks in general because you would see far less harvest fisheries and more CnR fisheries where bait isnt aloud and smolt are not being harvested or killed with bait. You would have no more impact from wild and hatchery fish spawning together.

And last but not least all of the money spent on hatcheries could be spent on restoration of wild stocks.

So yes I think hatcheries alone stand in the way of the wild fish. Atleast our current hatchery practices anyway.