We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish.
- Amir SalimOvertime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.
- Amir SalimSeveral panels of scientists, both within the agency and outside of it, have concluded that hatchery fish can cause harm to their wild counterparts.
- Amir Salim