Originally Posted By: Salmo g.


I think we know that hatcheries work. Hatcheries work to create abundant supplies of hatchery fish. Hatcheries can only improve naturally reproducing populations if they are managed for that purpose, and the overwhelming majority are not. And even when they are managed to improve wild populations, they can only do so if natural habitat is currently under-utilized.

Sg


+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

This should be the lead post for any hatchery debate... you know, before it turns into a train wreck of emotional BS
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