A complicating factor is that the contract the state (had) with the buyer was that buyer had to take all the fish, regardless of quality. The placement of fish back in streams is not only a good idea ecologically but actually helps out the buyer by reducing the amount of less desirable fish and fish from more remote facilities. I think that the money from the carcass and egg sales goes back to the volunteer groups for salmon enhancement. WDF started doing this around 1990.