date:May 16, 2012
tchery production, especially in Russia and Alaska.
In a 2010 open letter to Alaska hatcheries, seafood processors proposed increasing pink salmon hatchery returns by 25-115 per cent over the next five years. Similarly, Russian hatchery managers stated in 2010 that Russia is planning to build 23 new hatcheries that would increase the country's hatchery production by 66 per cent or 680 million fish.
The scale and magnitude of our current hatchery production system is enormous, says Mr Rand.