The hatchery is legislatively mandated as mitigation for the Landsburg Diversion. Around 1990. originally, it was supposed to have been a spawning channel. IHNV rendered that idea moot. From there, the hatchery was designed.

Lets see if I get this right. The hatchery is mitigation & paid for by SCL for a diversion. If I recall mitigation is used to attempt to replace natural production lost through some activity ( Landsburg Diversion ) and in mitigation agreements a cost / benefit ratio that is favorable to the entity being required to perform the mitigation in not a priority.

So why the whining? SCL is paying for the damage, real or perceived, it has done.