Originally Posted By: 20 Gage
- putting those carcasses out is very labor intensive.

- Plus, of course, you need access to the stream(s).

- The disease protocols are a major constraint.

- The other piece is that all the carcasses that come back to all the hatcheries are (maybe) enough for one river system. We are in that big of a hole.

- Further, our Legislature has mandated where some of the fish go;

Always the insurmountable excuses, with the last one so strongly based in science, no wonder the return numbers tank...
indeed. The state can get access just about wherever they need if conservation is concerned. Ive watched the nutrient enhancement in person and its not much more labor intensive than planting trout out of a bag chute. Is disease protocol an issue with the fish that spawn outside the hatcheries, die on the banks, cook a few days on said bank, then get washed back in with a high water.