Clearwater Salmon Limits increased

[SF_Austin]

You bring up a good point, but let me add some info for you. The hatcheries can only handle so many fish. Like last year the pasimeroi hatchery had about 2 or 3 times what they could even handle. Each adult female salmon spawns about 3 to 5 thousand eggs, so it doesn't take a ton of fish to keep a good hatchery population, so they increase the limits because they are just giving away half the salmon in the hatchery, they'd rather have us fisherman catch em out and have fun with that. I do agree with your point about the wild fish, it's impossible to only catch hatchery fish, but for the most part you'll only catch hatchery fish when fishing for salmon. Honestly I wish we didn't even have a need for hatcheries and we had a strong wild population, I guess I'll keep dreaming of the day we get rid of some dams.
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