So you would rather "bonk" a small hatchery buck than let it spawn with a native female. What about those native females that have no wild buck to spawn with? Supposedly, the low wild returning natives need all of the help they can get, So my thought is that a particially wild fish is better than none. In Utopia we would not need to quible about such things, but here, where the fish traverse nets in the salt, and have to fight through the nets in the rivers, i would think that any wild fish would be better than none at all!
I will go a step further and say that because i think that most strains of wild fish have become diluted, i feel that there should be a choice on if you kill a wild fish or not. I agree with the limits that they have set on the peninsula rivers,(one wild fish a day, five per season). The reason that i do is because some will be caught in nets,some die from hook mortality, and others submit to poachers and the like, and if i am on a river that allows me the option, i will sometimes take that option.There i said, before i get flamed to death, remember that at least i had the b@lls to come right out and say it, NOT say one thing and do another!