I dont think anyone has said the hatcherys are 100% perfect. Improvments can always be made. But in my opinion they are not the root cause of the problem. There are alot of other things that cause more harm than they do. And if you beleive the science in this post you may have to ask yourself if there are any 100% wild/native fish left to save. After 108 years of hatchery operations and from what I have been able to find no fin clipping for the first 70 or more years. Who knows for sure what we are calling natives are indeed native or some kinda mutt. Without the genetic code of a fish older than the first hatcherys how can it be proven that our native fish even exist.