Native fish are NOT replaceable! If you kill a native hen, you are taking 3 or 4 fish out of the river (its offspring) and this may sound like a very small amount but add to that 500 other fish taken, and you end up taking alot of fish out of the river for the future. Hatchery fish were put here for a reason - to allow people to keep fish at the expense of paying more to keep the hatchery programs putting more fish in the rivers. Bottom line is: Release the Nates and keep the brats.

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"I have a fair idea of what to expect from the river, and usually, because I fish it that way, the river gives me approximately what I expect of it. But sooner or later something always comes up to change the set of my ways..."
- Roderick Haig-Brown