Originally Posted By: OncyT

Sg, it's a little too late for this approach. There is no longer a steelhead program at Chambers Creek. The last releases from there were around 1996 or 1997. The program basically had no returns to the Chambers Creek rack since several years earlier (1991 or so) and had to be supported by transferring eggs back from some the its derivative populations. So even in the hatchery environment, this population wasn't productive enough to sustain itself....



Seems like the same scenario is playing out in other facilities where the fabled Chambers stock is propagated.

The programs simply fail to produce enough returning adults to reliably replace the broodstock needed for the next spawn.

Sad....
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