"The real fundamental problem is fishery reform. ... If a hatchery effectively stops management reform for the natural stock, I'd be hesitant to call anything successful."
And that, of course, IS the problem.  Hatcheries represent a failure of fisheries management, a concession that managers have failed to impose the harvest constraints necessary to maintain a healthy natural stock in its native waters.  They are a crutch, that permit managers to say "Don't worry about taking too many fish; don't concern yourself about how much pressure the resource can take.  We can always make more."  And perhaps they can.  But for those who fish America's coastal waters because they are wild, because they represent something that has not been completely corrupted by human hands and human greed, hatchery fish represent a desecration of something natural and good, a desecration that can't be healed, or even partially assuaged, by the heft of a cooler filled with manufactred fish.