03-25-2010, 10:47 PM
Cpierce and Prvt you guys need to sit down with a fisheries biologist and get yourselves clued in because quite frankly you guys are clueless....... First of all yes our fish did come from wild fish in the beginning but that was years ago. The hatchery fish now are the product of years of inbreeding within the hatchery and are genetically inferior compared to their truly wild bretheren. Sure fish and game dont clip some fish but they return to the hatchery as well and just because they have and adi sure doesnt mean they are ok to breed with true wild fish. I also have to point out that probably 99.9% of Idaho steelhead are not repeat spawners and never will be. Steelhead are capable of multiple spawning runs but not to idaho and back. Generally speaking most systems that support repeat spawners are no more than 30 miles from the ocean to the spawning grounds, in many cases even less distance than that.
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