07-10-2010, 09:16 PM
Im just going to say one thing about the SF wild salmon. Im a fisheries biologist (MT) and was over there this friday with 2 other fish biologists. Only stated for the purpose that we know what a fish is. Anyway, we saw hundreds of young of the year chinook that were not clipped actually rescues several dozen out of a landlocked pool.
Are unclipped chinook fry stocked into the SF river? If they do then that explains what we saw. I doubt it though since we saw no clipped fry. Every little backwater in the rocks and log jams was occupied with unclipped chinnok fingerlings. To me, unless one of the involved groups is stocking these fish, it indicates some level of natural reproduction.
As far as the indians. Live with it. We will lose fishing privliges before they will. They have treaty rights. Like it or not these will go on far longer than we will be around.
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Are unclipped chinook fry stocked into the SF river? If they do then that explains what we saw. I doubt it though since we saw no clipped fry. Every little backwater in the rocks and log jams was occupied with unclipped chinnok fingerlings. To me, unless one of the involved groups is stocking these fish, it indicates some level of natural reproduction.
As far as the indians. Live with it. We will lose fishing privliges before they will. They have treaty rights. Like it or not these will go on far longer than we will be around.
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