It's not hatcheries. It was actually just elders talking about restocking the streams themselves, taking from one stream that had an abundance of fish and physically taking them as they're spawning and bringing them up to streams that they know are in trouble. We've heard those stories for years up here from the elders.
From the west coast, we've heard stories that they've gone to this point where they're talking about extensions for their runs. In some cases they worked out really well, and in other cases they haven't.
As was mentioned before, hatcheries can be really tricky in terms of water quality. Everything has to go right for hatcheries to work out properly. I've heard success stories from the west coast and I've heard some really not very good stories when it hasn't worked out and a lot of money was spent and they didn't get results.
Going about this properly is the important thing if we are indeed going to go down the road of hatcheries. As was mentioned before, there are a lot of things that need to go right for it to happen properly. We know the risks of hatcheries and we don't want to do any more damage than has already been done to the salmon here.