It really boils down to making a value judgment here:

If we're going to have hatchery fish to harvest, wouldn't it be better to have hatchery fish that, if they escape to spawn, aren't so bad for the wild fish as the regular hatchery fish would be?

Everyone will have to make their own value judgment on that...I, for one, could care less about having steelhead to harvest after the bananas are done, so any bad effect on the wild fish is too much for my liking.

They may not be as bad as Chambers fish spawning with wild fish, but they're a damn sight away from wild fish spawning with each other.

The 'dream' part is that they are somehow cheating Mother Nature by "making" more "wild fish" than would be made if you just left the fish alone...that's the part that is a 100% failure every time it's been measured, and "works" if you ask anyone involved in a program that has never had it measured.

Fish on...

Todd