02-08-2013, 06:16 PM
Back to your question about "are they trying to produced stunted fish?"
Yes and no. The state hatcheries have been so concerned about producing a certain number of fish that the have redundancy and overproduce. Not a bad thing for smaller and more critical areas of fish production but totally irrational when it comes to something like nonnative rainbow trout by the millions. A lot of waste and give aways to other states traditionally when it comes to rainbows. Like it would be a disaster if one year they only produced 80-90 of goal for bows[crazy]. I think they have so many surplus bows some years they clearly dump them in places they shouldn't be and the stunting results. Probable done so the audits don't look so bad. I do think the audits has made them start to think about how silly it is to blow our money to shoot for 160% of goal with rainbows. So not only are they starting to be more fiscally responsible they also have a better chance of not stunting as many waters. Nothing worse than running in to those stockies where you have been catching nice fish previously. Here's an article from a couple years ago http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/outdoors/53...csp?page=2
Glad your enjoying Utah streams. When summer rolls around tons of nice waters open up.
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Yes and no. The state hatcheries have been so concerned about producing a certain number of fish that the have redundancy and overproduce. Not a bad thing for smaller and more critical areas of fish production but totally irrational when it comes to something like nonnative rainbow trout by the millions. A lot of waste and give aways to other states traditionally when it comes to rainbows. Like it would be a disaster if one year they only produced 80-90 of goal for bows[crazy]. I think they have so many surplus bows some years they clearly dump them in places they shouldn't be and the stunting results. Probable done so the audits don't look so bad. I do think the audits has made them start to think about how silly it is to blow our money to shoot for 160% of goal with rainbows. So not only are they starting to be more fiscally responsible they also have a better chance of not stunting as many waters. Nothing worse than running in to those stockies where you have been catching nice fish previously. Here's an article from a couple years ago http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/outdoors/53...csp?page=2
Glad your enjoying Utah streams. When summer rolls around tons of nice waters open up.
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