Anyone who can help:
I am an undergrad in the SOF at the UW and I am trying to find some evidence but have looked all over and cant find anything.
I am gonna write a paper for my FISH 101 class arguing that the ESA listing of Upper Columbia Steelhead is unwarranted and unnessacry because all the wild steelhead in the Upper Columbia are genetically and morphologically differnt from the true native fish up this system because of inbreeding between hatchery and native fish and the mixing of all Upper Columbia steelhead at Wells Dam. Thus there are now native steelhead left, they are extinct. From some books I have read I have fisherman's accounts describing the differnces between the wild fish now and the wild fish then but I dont have any scientific evidence or papers that I can use as evidence. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
Ryan S. Petzold

[This message has been edited by RPetzold (edited 12-01-1999).]