05-08-2012, 01:11 PM
I think someone was smokin' crack when they wrote that one.
If a hatchery fish breeds with a wild fish it reduces the viability of the offspring versus a wildXwild cross. A hatcheryXhatchery cross is suck squared.
One of the biggest issues we face in Idaho is that many of the hatchery steelhead in this state are from stocks of fish from California because they survived better in concrete ponds, but they have poor homng and are weak fish that want to spawn closer to the ocean. The focus should be on getting a solid broodstock program going in Idaho based on genetics of Idaho wild stocks, and kill off the "imported" hatchery stocks.
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If a hatchery fish breeds with a wild fish it reduces the viability of the offspring versus a wildXwild cross. A hatcheryXhatchery cross is suck squared.
One of the biggest issues we face in Idaho is that many of the hatchery steelhead in this state are from stocks of fish from California because they survived better in concrete ponds, but they have poor homng and are weak fish that want to spawn closer to the ocean. The focus should be on getting a solid broodstock program going in Idaho based on genetics of Idaho wild stocks, and kill off the "imported" hatchery stocks.
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