Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
Originally Posted By: elparquito
[quote=Salmo g.]

Jeez Paker, did I pee in your Cheerios or something?


However, by reducing encounters and their associated incidental mortality (conservatively calculated at 10% but more likely in the 4 - 5% range), it's realistically possible that significantly more steelhead will survive to spawn in 2021.


Survive, quite possibly. But if they hit the redds with a stray or hatchery fish the point of even making the spawning bed is useless and renders a reproductive fitness near ZERO... There is so much evidence pointing towards this statement being accurate and we all turn a blind eye. We as mankind can't fix this problem, mother nature needs to fix it's self.

I fought the thought 12-15 years ago, but there is so much evidence that shows it to be true.

Get rid of hatchery fish and brood stock programs and someday we could have a population that could be well above escapement allowing more opportunity to fish over them with methods we choose to use.

Keith
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It's time to put the red rubber nose away, clown seasons over.