Very worthwhile discussion. I've always thought that streams with good habitat that had very few steelhead in them could be jump started with good practices. For instance, using a broodstock program to collect wild adults, spawning them in the hatchery, then outplanting them as fry. One of the major mortality factors in wild fish survival is the egg to fry life stage. This method would increase survival dramatically in the first stage of life, but would not dumb down the juveniles being held in the hatchery to become smolts. I know for certain it has worked in the past.