I hope there's no inconsistency with attempting to increase natural salmon production and making commercial fishing more selective. The naturally produced fish are never going to support the high harvest rates that the hatchery fish can.


Very true, but I can't find a working example of where hatchery salmon are commercially harvested using selective methods other than time and place, even the Colville fishery is based on that. The sport examples are just to keep the season open longer, the needs of the two user groups for economic purposes are vastly different.