Responding to 2 points:

That hatcheries have never helped recover wild fish. That is not correct. Hood Canal summer chum were a very depressed stock that was listed as threatened under the ESA. A hatchery program directed at summer chum recovery operated for about 12 years on about 8 Hood Canal tributaries. Summer chum have rebounded on most of those streams, with "natural origin" chum meeting and exceeding spawning escapement goals for certain rivers, like the Quillcene. I think all the summer chum hatchery programs have been discontinued now, but I'm not sure. Nonetheless, it's now a pretty vacuous argument to claim that hatchery programs cannot help wild fish populations.

Because Hood Canal natural production summer chum are meeting or exceeding their spawning escapement goals, treaty fishing on that stock was approved by tribal managers and NOAA Fisheries.

Sincerely,

Salmo g.