I am aware of all he financial cuts but you tell me that a private run hatchery which is conforming to all the various regulations, with private funding which has been successfully taking rod caught  whiled salmon and therefor rearing pellet fed but still whiled salmon par and smolts, for over ten years. Why have they been stopped breading these salmon. Are you going to stop the hatchery  schemes on the Tyne and several rivers in Scotland. There are hundreds of hatcheries in Canada and all over the world, it seems to work. Please can you send me an answer i sure you must have a scientific answer to why it is allowed to work on some rivers with Atlantic salmon and not on others, it is not  money as it was being financed by the rod anglers via the fishing clubs and private individuals.

                                                                                        Phil Davies