Doc, Todd, if 2k hatchery out of basin or Wild Broodstock return to a system, and 10% stray and mingle with the wilds on the gravel. If the out of basin have little to know fitness even when one parent is wild! or the wild Broodstock mingles and has an 85% fitness. Which would be more beneficial to the wild fish.

We catch clipped fish all season long, their is not much run segregation any longer, many spawned kelts, and more as the season progresses

In a good world we would not have hatchery fish, but that is not going to happen anytime soon. So if cross breeding is bound to happen, which is better, losing 50 pair of wild fish to broodstocking or having 200 out of basin crossing with 200 wild fish on the gravel.

Todd, your statement of making hatchery fish or increasing wild production, you can't have both. But you can, 200 Broodstock crossed with 200 wild would have an 85% fitness or better on the gravel! those same 200 wilds crossed with Out Of Basin stock would have very little to no fitness. So a loss of 200 wilds. You would have a better hatchery fish and a more viable wild/Broodstock cross fish on the gravel, carrying the same gene's.