Originally Posted By: bodysurf


i'm not convinced on mass marking anymore after working on it for 20 years either...the tribes original position is sounding better and better...

maybe time to end mass marking?

norm dicks was wined and dined by Northwest Marine Technology to push mass marking thru anyways as a benefit to them and they have benefited greatly from it $$$$$


Non-selective fishing, combined with hatchery production, has been shown to wipe out the wild stocks. Hatchery stocks can be harvested at 90-95% of the adult returns. The wild stocks cannot be harvested at anything close to that. If fishing is non-selective, the wild fish will be harvested at the same rate as the hatchery fish. So one of two things happen. Either there is a huge, unharvested population of hatchery fish; or the wild stocks go extinct.

Which do you think will happen?

Lemme answer my own question:

History is clear. When a watershed contains a fish hatchery, all stocks are harvested at the higher rate. And the wild fish are quickly eliminated. That is the legacy of non-selective fishing, and hatchery production.