I'm with you Dan. But how is an exact genetic replica going to be better or different than the "cookie cutter" brats everyone is knocking, both figuretively and literally?

Lead Thrower, down here on "the farm" the way we get more, bigger and fatter sheep and goats is to cull the ones that don't make the cut. But to me what works on the farm may not be right for the wild, because essentially farming and culling are about domestication not "wildness". They both have there place, but they are not always compatible. You can get more and/or bigger fish but with consequenses to the wild fish, maybe favorable, maybe not so favorable. Kamloops trout story is only one example. Question is: if we really want wild fish are we willing to let them be wild and take them as they come? Big or little, many or few, healthy or weak? I just think that most people are under the false notion that if stocks were all wild, the steelhead would all be bigger and there would be way more of them. You are far more honest and you hit much closer to home than many would care to admit.

Cowfish,
By the way, when I mentioned "protecting and enhancing" earlier I failed to mention that the thing you and your buddies did down there on the Cow was standup. That is putting your money where your mouth is. Right on.