Originally Posted By: Salmo g.


A lot of those wild fish may be the result of hatchery fish spawning in the natural environment, but once they succeed, both the law and management count them as wild. So long as increasing numbers of chinook are reproducing naturally, by definition, recovery is happening.



but, if you do have unclipped offspring of hatchery fish driving the wild population wouldn't it make sense that the wild population would crash if you pulled the hatchery fish off the spawning grounds ??