In the past couple years a number of blue ribbon panel reports on hatchery reform have been published, and these may be of interest to readers of this thread. Here's a few to start with:

The Hatchery Reform Scientific Group (for Puget Sound and the Washington coast): http://www.hatcheryreform.org

Trout Unlimited's 2004 report on "Landscape Hatcheries": linked from the TU homepage: http://www.tu.org

The Columbia Basin's Artificial Production Review and Evaluation:
http://www.nwppc.org/fw/apre/Default.htm
http://www.nwppc.org/library/2003/2003-17.htm

the 2001 California DFG and NMFS hatchery review
http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov/jhr.htm