I agree that something has to be done with the excess hatchery fish, so here are a couple of my options...

1. extend season times or areas to provide access to them

2. increase limits on them

3. send carcasses to food banks, or distribute them to whomever for food

4. dump excess carcasses in tributary streams

5. if so many are being produced that they can't be caught, then don't produce so many.

Take the money that you would have spent producing the excess that gets dumped and put it into something useful, other than providing filler for a landfill, like upgrading the hatchery, buying habitat, increasing production at a different hatchery that doesn't have the "excess fish" problem.

There are probably a lot more, those are just off the top of my head opinions.

Fish on...

Todd