I like the idea of farmed fish, if you can reduce or eliminate the waste that it produces. Raising them in ponds in Idaho is probably a lot cleaner than net pens in Puget Sound, with no chance of an accidental release putting inferior fish into the gene pool.

The Pike Place Market does indeed sell river caught steelhead. I think that they are from Quinalt Tribal Enterprises.

By the way, I heard a rumor that the Quinalts do NOT clip their hatchery steelhead (the ones in the Quinalt, as opposed to the ones in the Salmon and Raft Rivers, which are clipped), so fish caught in the lower Quinalt, though having an adipose fin, may be hatchery fish. Does anyone know about this? Is it true or not?
If it is true, would this be so their clients could keep a pig on the off chance that it is a hatchery fish? I guess their hatchery fish are pigs, too, anyway.

Anyone have any facts about that?
Thanks.

Fish on...
Todd.