text: Hatchery pinks salmon ranching is costing the sockeye fisherman money.  Notice in 2015 the huge pink salmon glut when the sockeye salmon were each a pound less?  Guess what this is costing us.  The hatchery fish are eating our wild sockeye salmons food while their out in our wild pastures.  How much did this cost the fishing fleet?  $3,000,000 dollars in Upper Cook Inlet alone!  Sockeye were a pound less across the state so lets see 40,000,000 sockeye each with a pound less weight?  $40,000,000 dollars? It is well known on big pink years our sockeye are smaller or less of them.  Plus on top of us losing to the hatchery fishermans welfare fish we have to pay 2% on our skinny sockeye to raise these pinks in hatcheries known to cause trouble with wild salmon! Cook Inlet Aquaculture not only cost recovers all the fish in Tutka with their preferred ranching fisherman, damages the sockeye and  takes 100% for cost recovery of the fish in resurrection bay.  Sounds like an empire building scam