This probably doesn't apply to all brood stocking programs, but I think that a recent Canadian study, done by Mark Chilcote (I think), was not very encouraging.

The study's take home message was that removing wild fish from the system and broodstocking them doesn't provide any additional fish that they wouldn't have produced in the wild. That's a bummer enough, but if the ones produced are clipped and destined for harvest, then it was worse than just breaking even.

I'll see if I can find the study and post a link to it here, unless someone else beats me to it.

Fish on...

Todd.
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