Lots of folks are pushing upland facilities for the commercial rearing. It takes a whole lot of clean water, which is actually in short supply having spent years trying to find sites for small grow and release hatcheries.

Cowlitz, for example, uses over 100 cfs and it has disease issues that would wipe out grow to market operation. Where are you gonna find 100 cfs of disease-free water that you are willing to keep anadromous fish out of to prevent disease transfer?

If we (humans, not just anglers) are going to eat fish or beef or fowl or just about any food you can think of it will require concentrated growing (agriculture/aquaculture). The "wild" can not support the world-wide demand. Siting is critical but for every bay we protect on the Pacific Coast is some bay somewhere else that gets used.

Too much demand...........