Yes, Stew it seems pathetic to take eggs from wild fish to make another fish to kill. It's not good practice on a run of fish that is in trouble. The good thing is that the Siletz, Wilson, and Nestucca rivers are not in trouble with wild steelhead populations. Yes, they have been better, but the populations are steady.
Once again someone is leaving out all the infromation. These wild fish are not killed, and many of them return to spawn again. I know this becasue I have caugth them in the Wison. They have a little wire tag in their dorsal fin. Pretty neat if you think about it. 100 pair of steelhead and you can have several thousand adults return from them.
Will you show us how they kill wild steelhead to do it? I have fished wild steelhead in every river in Oregon that has a broodstock program and most that don't. The hatchery rivers without broodstock programs are worthless. The ones with BS fish have just as healthy of wild runs as before the programs. The ones with 100% wild fish are the same today as they were 10 years ago. Show me how broodstock is bad.