Originally Posted By: Carcassman

I can see, and there are examples of, successful hatchery operations and successful wild runs. They just ain't in the same place. And, so long as we worship marine mixed stock fisheries, ignore the salmonid food needs in the ocean, starve the streams for nutrients, and maximize predator numbers, be it people, seals, or birds, wild fish are but a hazy memory. And if we don't deal with marine water productivity, so are the hatchery fish.


I think this is where the blinders need to come off the contingent that sees hatcheries as the panacea. Bottom line, if we ain't got the conditions to produce wild fish in robust numbers, the hatchery clones ain't far behind.

Wait... we'll just make a genetically superior hatchery fish by infusing with wild broodstock. And we'll make hatcheries better by making hatchery conditions more like the wild.

J F C.... someday everybody's gonna realize the best "hatchery" ever created was a healthy wild river.


Edited by eyeFISH (03/18/21 09:22 PM)
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