Originally Posted By: Carcassman
Lots of agencies and universities and others have done encounter/survival studies. Canadians did, and are doing, a lot with steelhead now.

I agree that the use of a net pen is not all that good. I think survival to spawning is the appropriate measure for release of adults. For juveniles it needs to be some significant period of time. A week?


NOT ACCURATE!
If you release a healthy juvenile and he is swimming like a champ... He runs into Mr. Ling Cod and gets chomped that counts against the guy who released it?
I know that fish get stressed especially when caught on a hook, squeezed by Chubacka and dropped on the deck. I am not saying that by releasing juveniles there are no casualties, but I question the accuracy.
Why should we use a ratio that puts us off the water when it may not be accurate


Edited by Priority2 (01/18/17 10:29 PM)