The bill mandates that the partner will be either a federally recognized tribe or a for-profit entity. It also states that the private partner may subcontract to harvest hatchery chum to pay hatchery operating costs. (No doubt the subcontracted commercial fisher will be a subsidiary of the partner running the hatchery.) Given that a hatchery can only raise a finite number of any species, what's preventing the for-profit partner from skewing the ratio of particular species raised in favor of chum to increase their profit margin? Would we eventually see astronomical numbers of chum return for the subcontracted commercials to catch, sell, and pay for hatchery operations, which includes the salary of the CEO/COO?

Is there a RCW or WDFW policy to prevent such a scenario?