Hatchery Fish News Today

Salmon advocates are outraged over a 'senseless' crime that took place at an Oregon fish hatchery on Monday. Officials say Joshua Heckathorn broke into the Reedsport hatchery and poured liquid bleach into a pond, killing around 18,000 salmon.

Thousands of live salmon were released into a small tributary of the Grande Ronde River last month

Hatchery fish are no substitute for conservation, according to the ruling. What this means for BC.

Million salmon would return every year, the greatest salmon fishery in the world. and now it is about a million. >> reporter: and most of those are hatchery fish. with weaker genes and less fat than the wild cousins. so the southern resident killer whales that live on chinook are starving. there are only 73 of this kind of orca left on the planet. and after a grieving mom pushed her dead calf around puget sound for weeks it rekindled a decades old debate, salmon versus dams. >> what would you sa...