The link that bushbear put up to the PSRFE program has some interesting information.

The last document attached as Meeting Minutes for the advisory group's October 24th meeting shows recent survival, contribution to all sport fisheries, contribution to blackmouth fisheries and cost/fish contributed to both sport fisheries for several different yearling and fingerling programs. With the exception of Minter Creek yearlings, there currently doesn't appear to be a huge advantage in contribution rate for yearling versus fingerling releases to these fisheries. As Carcassman noted above, the yearling Chinook generally contributed as "well" (I will add "or as poorly"), as the fingerlings.

At the current survival rates, the cost of putting fish into these sport fisheries is also relatively low for most fingerling programs versus yearling programs. Soos Creek fingerlings, however, are surprisingly expensive - costing over $2000 for each fish into the blackmouth fishery. This is several times the cost per fish caught of all the other programs described. However, because of the size of the Soos Creek program (3.2M fish), it has the second highest number of fish contributed of the programs described.

Personally, I'm glad that folks are finally looking at the actual fishery contribution of these programs rather than judging success solely on the number of fish that were released.