Originally Posted By: Carcassman
The problem with deliberately releasing unmarked fish in order to insure meeting egg-take goals is that you can't be sure about the number of wild fish in the egg-take. In order to run either an integrated or a segregated (essentially any) hatchery program you need to know the origin of each spawner.



It's not that difficult with a pectoral or ventral fin clip to verify it's an ACTUAL hatchery fish.....

But we don't really want to know how many true "native" fish we have left. That's a whole new can of worms that the higher power doesn't want to open....

Keith
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