Doc,

I would think you would support further separation between hatchery fish and wild fish. Here is my argument. If successive hatchery generations have reduced capacity for reproduction, then hatchery fish that intermingle with wild fish will be less likely to successfully pass on its genes. In fact, if you carry the reduced capacity out several generations for pure hatchery strains, you may even have hatchery fish with almost zero reproductive capacity thereby impacting wild stocks minimally. Yes, the hatchery buck will try to fertilize the wild fish eggs, but their reproductive juice will have no pop. So then the wild buck comes in and fertilizes and make baby wild salmon.

Just a thought.