There is a big question right now about the effect hatcheries have had on native runs. Filling rivers with hatchery fish is most likely not a good idea. The state is pulling funding right and left anyway so we could never pay to fill rivers with hatchery fish. The best plan now is to say no keeping of wild fish, and shut down a hatchery on a river and keep a check on the wild fish, hell throw out all variables we can on a certain river (ie: improve streamside enviroment,kill the over abondance of seels and sea lions, shut down ALL fishing) then see if the numbers of wild fish improves. We have gotten lost in our counts in this state. We dont know what the harvestable amount of fish is on any freakin rivers!