Why can’t we just release a ton of fish fry to replenish populations?

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We can breed fish by the thousands in farms, yet populations in the wild are dying out. Why can’t we just dump tons of fish fry/larvae into the waters they normally live in, and some will get eaten and some will live, and replenish the populations artificially? Fish aren’t particularly caring parents, so unlike releasing a bunch of lion cubs or something, it will resemble what happens in the environment.

Edit: I’m talking about overfishing specifically here, not climate change or natural diseases or whatever.

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Because you need to make sure the fish have a high likelihood of survival if you’re going to waste your time growing them unless you want to spend all your time on the world’s most inefficient project to feed the local wildlife fish fry.

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