Not sure how much teeth the Mitchell Act really has.

We are already producing far less mitigation fish than the Act obligates us to. Who's enforcing the production obligation?

Moreover, commission-sanctioned hatchery reform is headed toward production levels commensurate with our ability to selectively remove them fom the adult return. Bottom line, the state does NOT want to be in the business of artificially propagating fish that no one is gonna be able to catch.... kind of goes against the grain of leaving 75% of the hatch fish in the river unharvested.