One thing to remember in this is that the hatcherys were supposed to replace fish lost due to habitat distruction by dams, logging, agriculture ect. The high cost of fish production is a hidden cost of these activities and a subsidy for industry. The bad part is that the cure for habitat distruction, fish hatcheries, may be doing more harm than good in the long run. I know this is all being debated,I hope it gets sorted out before it is to late.
A few issues back there was an article in the fishletter www.newsdata.com/enernet/fishletter/ that pegged the price of those Columbia River spring hatchery chinook at over $400 each. The lattest issue has an article on the productivity of hatcheries and their effect on wild salmon.

Here is a link to the above mentioned article www.newsdata.com/enernet/fishletter/fishltr102.html#5

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