I think what fisheries biologists are learning is how to operate hatcheries in a better way. You know we were talking about this effort to try to explain the science of fish-rearing to the general public. And I think you can understand from this very discussion here that they still have a lot of explaining to do. You mentioned in your introduction that the return of the spring chinook run is so tremendous on the Columbia River, the best it's been in more than 20 years. The root of that problem is the difference between hatchery fish and the other kind of fish.
People are more enlightened than that but that question gets raised.
I think a lot of people feel that way. They're not all that weak. They are not weak little fish. You look at number they release, something like 43 million every year, and very, very few come back, maybe one percent of those are coming back. And so, yeah, for the hatchery fish, anyway, that is survival of the fittest.