Thanks all!

Robert Allen3: It's to early in this tread to make such statements; please let people think of the pro and cons! Then you can make your judgments…fair enough?

I am not saying that we should clone wild steelhead, but "what if" all else and all other efforts fail? Could we not then hatch out the fry form these genetic clones and put them back in the same river system that their parents had come from? I would not support raising them to smolts. Would they not have to still go through same stages of adapting to their ecological systems as there parents did? If they were tuff like their parents, they would survive, if not they would just become crawdad food!

How would you be completing with other "wild" fish if they were already gone?

I would be opposed to cloning steelhead and dumping them into rivers systems in which they were not native to, but what is wrong with dumping cloned genetic fry into the same river system that their parents had came from?

There are a lot of good comments coming in, and this time no one is mad at each other (yet).

Lets just keep hearing everyone's opinion on this issue…it sure can't hurt to be prepared for the worse!


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