That last line in the story is such a crock of $hit! I challenge ANYONE to produce a paper or study that shows a wild native run was restored with the aid of hatchery supplementation/enhancement.

This is a major step BACKWARD in salmon restoration that overshadows WSR by several orders of magnitude. What a travesty! Just more ammo for all the camps that subscribe to the dangerous conceit that we can just manufacture salmon at will to mitigate the past and ongoing damage caused by all the various resource extractors.

The phrase "salmon without rivers" was coined by Jim Lichatowich to bring decision makers to an enlightened realization of where we had gone wrong for over a century. It now appears they have embraced the phrase to spearhead a self-fulfilling prophecy toward extinction of wild salmon.

Counting hatchery fish as wild fish is beyond irresponsible, it is reprehensible. Reminds me of a Saturday Night Live spoof about the Federal Reserve based on the old Smith Barney motto, "We make money the old fashioned way, we EARN it!" The Fed version goes something like this...."We make money the old-fashioned way, we MAKE it!"