Hatchery programs of most any sort tend to have a quick and measurable increase in available fish, but tend to be self-limiting, and when the program by its own characteristics start to limit its production, everyone involved looks for an outside problem to blame it on...when the problem is usually the program itself.

That's why the "if we only planted ten times as many smolts, we'd have ten times as many fish!" argument virtually never works...ever.

Fish on...

Todd