Advertisement$40 Million Later, A Pioneering Plan To Boost Wild Fish Stocks Shows Little SuccessFebruary 15, 2018Clare Leschin-HoarfacebookEmailStaff at Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute sluice juvenile white seabass into a cage at Santa Catalina Island, in Southern California, where they grow before being released into the ocean. Thirty-five years ago, the state launched the program to bolster waning white seabass numbers. Now the first scientific assessment of the program finds it had a stunningly low success rate. (Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute)