#1021793 - 02/08/20 11:36 AM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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Juvenile at Sea
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Whoa there Numb, pretty harsh words without having a timeframe or location context for slabs generalization. For example, spill and flow ramping regimes have improved in Columbia River hydro system. Some areas have had habitat restoration projects (eg Nisqually estuary). We all reveal some level of our intelligence in our comments. One must be careful.
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#1021797 - 02/08/20 12:07 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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Repeat Spawner
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+1 on that baiter,
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#1021800 - 02/08/20 01:23 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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Alevin
Registered: 10/29/15
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Whoa there Numb, pretty harsh words without having a timeframe or location context for slabs generalization. For example, spill and flow ramping regimes have improved in Columbia River hydro system. Some areas have had habitat restoration projects (eg Nisqually estuary). We all reveal some level of our intelligence in our comments. One must be careful. You’re missing the most obvious problem in this picture. Ocean productivity in general has tanked. The productivity of the Pacific Ocean is by far and without a doubt the most significant factor or variable when looking at the relationship of smolts recruiting into the adult/spawning population. This is what we have unfortunately been witnessing and probably will continue to in the future. If ocean conditions continue to be unproductive for salmonids, then other attempts will not be successful in trying to rebuild our stocks. There are all these complete Neanderthals on this forum that stress planting more fish to curb these recent dismal returns. Planting more will not fix the problem, it will just waste more energy and taxpayers money. There is no guarantee that by “restoring” habitat (if even possible) equals a significant increase in escapement/harvest. It can take decades to restore habitat. The clock is ticking.....we don’t have decades in case you haven’t noticed. By the way, how are the populations of salmonids doing on the Columbia/Snake? There have been lots of closed fisheries in the past two seasons.. Those increases in “spill” are important and very necessary but...if we we are to witness significant improvements the dams on the Columbia and Snake need to be removed. Anything less is a band aid solution.
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#1021832 - 02/10/20 01:11 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
[Re: Numbqua]
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River Nutrients
Registered: 10/22/09
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Whoa there Numb, pretty harsh words without having a timeframe or location context for slabs generalization. For example, spill and flow ramping regimes have improved in Columbia River hydro system. Some areas have had habitat restoration projects (eg Nisqually estuary). We all reveal some level of our intelligence in our comments. One must be careful. You’re missing the most obvious problem in this picture. Ocean productivity in general has tanked. The productivity of the Pacific Ocean is by far and without a doubt the most significant factor or variable when looking at the relationship of smolts recruiting into the adult/spawning population. This is what we have unfortunately been witnessing and probably will continue to in the future. If ocean conditions continue to be unproductive for salmonids, then other attempts will not be successful in trying to rebuild our stocks. There are all these complete Neanderthals on this forum that stress planting more fish to curb these recent dismal returns. Planting more will not fix the problem, it will just waste more energy and taxpayers money.There is no guarantee that by “restoring” habitat (if even possible) equals a significant increase in escapement/harvest. It can take decades to restore habitat. The clock is ticking.....we don’t have decades in case you haven’t noticed. By the way, how are the populations of salmonids doing on the Columbia/Snake? There have been lots of closed fisheries in the past two seasons.. Those increases in “spill” are important and very necessary but...if we we are to witness significant improvements the dams on the Columbia and Snake need to be removed. Anything less is a band aid solution. So in just over four years it seems you've made 13 posts with the last several espousing how other posters are missing your point or are complete Neanderthals. That may be a record (dubious one, but a record none the less). Just a test question but if the Neanderthals' idea of planting more fish is illogical given constraints of the ocean conditions how will removing the Snake River dams improve returns? That is, unless I missed your initial point...... A serious constraint to Puget Sound origin salmon smolt is predation and particularly by seals and cormorants. According to the Chasko report seals alone are taking roughly 22% of all (wild and hatchery) Puget Sound origin Chinook smolts and when adjusted to adult equivalents seals take twice what Orcas consume and six times all human fisheries. Being one of your Neanderthals I support additional production with the same optimism of farmers planting their fields; that conditions will be good and the fields will produce.
Edited by Larry B (02/10/20 02:20 PM)
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#1021835 - 02/10/20 02:05 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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Lord of the Chums
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im sure someone has thought of this before, but ill say it anyways...
our oceans are giant fish tanks, fish need to eat...
anyone ever thought about farming food? like krill, candlefish, etc, the food that salmon and steelhead eat?
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#1021840 - 02/10/20 02:34 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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Someone is saddling up to ride into town and shoot that one down.
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#1021843 - 02/10/20 02:40 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
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im sure someone has thought of this before, but ill say it anyways...
our oceans are giant fish tanks, fish need to eat...
anyone ever thought about farming food? like krill, candlefish, etc, the food that salmon and steelhead eat? An easier way to accomplish this is to stop harvesting herring, krill, etc...there would be an immediate increase in food base. Fish on... Todd
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#1021851 - 02/10/20 04:03 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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King of the Beach
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im sure someone has thought of this before, but ill say it anyways...
our oceans are giant fish tanks, fish need to eat...
anyone ever thought about farming food? like krill, candlefish, etc, the food that salmon and steelhead eat? Not a hatchery, but an idea that might help increase herring populations. SF https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c...atsen-1.3447913
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#1021852 - 02/10/20 04:06 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 01/29/19
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im sure someone has thought of this before, but ill say it anyways...
our oceans are giant fish tanks, fish need to eat...
anyone ever thought about farming food? like krill, candlefish, etc, the food that salmon and steelhead eat? An easier way to accomplish this is to stop harvesting herring, krill, etc...there would be an immediate increase in food base. Fish on... Todd Both of these seem like good ideas, couldn't hurt.
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#1021853 - 02/10/20 05:13 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
[Re: OncyT]
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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Feed it and it will come.
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#1021854 - 02/10/20 05:26 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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River Nutrients
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im sure someone has thought of this before, but ill say it anyways...
our oceans are giant fish tanks, fish need to eat...
anyone ever thought about farming food? like krill, candlefish, etc, the food that salmon and steelhead eat? Not a hatchery, but an idea that might help increase herring populations. SF https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c...atsen-1.3447913 Several Puget Sound Angler chapters are pursuing this idea. Apparently the location in Vancouver had been a successful herring spawning site prior to construction of the marina. The netting essentially replaced the natural spawning habitat. When contacted the WDFW forage fish specialist opined that Puget Sound has a lot of suitable habitat which is not being utilized. Bottom line, in the case of herring the "build it and they will come" mantra is not necessarily true.
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#1021901 - 02/11/20 08:29 AM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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I really think that harvesting all the herring and putting them in a small can with oil will help. Krill? Dry em out and drop em in the fish tank at the local Olive Garden.
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#1021914 - 02/11/20 08:51 AM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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River Nutrients
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I really think that harvesting all the herring and putting them in a small can with oil will help. Krill? Dry em out and drop em in the fish tank at the local Olive Garden. So many variations and so little time.....pickled, kippered and a variety of sauces (tomato, mustard, lemon and cracked pepper, creme to name a few).
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#1021917 - 02/11/20 08:57 AM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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Perhaps we could just can steelhead smolt.
I prefer wild.
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#1021923 - 02/11/20 09:18 AM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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Three Time Spawner
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#1021924 - 02/11/20 09:27 AM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
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I was just re-reading Royal's report on WA's anadromous trout program. From the early 70s. Back then, WDG was planing "a lot" of steelhead smolts. They found that significant increases did not really bump up catches of hatchery fish. They knew there were limits back then.
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#1021936 - 02/11/20 11:27 AM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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Yup. We usually caught limits back then.
AND
There was zero junk mail.
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#1021938 - 02/11/20 12:11 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
[Re: Numbqua]
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Repeat Spawner
Registered: 12/06/07
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Whoa there Numb, pretty harsh words without having a timeframe or location context for slabs generalization. For example, spill and flow ramping regimes have improved in Columbia River hydro system. Some areas have had habitat restoration projects (eg Nisqually estuary). We all reveal some level of our intelligence in our comments. One must be careful. You’re missing the most obvious problem in this picture. Ocean productivity in general has tanked. The productivity of the Pacific Ocean is by far and without a doubt the most significant factor or variable when looking at the relationship of smolts recruiting into the adult/spawning population. This is what we have unfortunately been witnessing and probably will continue to in the future. If ocean conditions continue to be unproductive for salmonids, then other attempts will not be successful in trying to rebuild our stocks. There are all these complete Neanderthals on this forum that stress planting more fish to curb these recent dismal returns. Planting more will not fix the problem, it will just waste more energy and taxpayers money. There is no guarantee that by “restoring” habitat (if even possible) equals a significant increase in escapement/harvest. It can take decades to restore habitat. The clock is ticking.....we don’t have decades in case you haven’t noticed. By the way, how are the populations of salmonids doing on the Columbia/Snake? There have been lots of closed fisheries in the past two seasons.. Those increases in “spill” are important and very necessary but...if we we are to witness significant improvements the dams on the Columbia and Snake need to be removed. Anything less is a band aid solution. For So. Puget Sound Steelhead, numbers can't even make out past the Straits! This is evidenced by acoustic transmitters planted in them. Something is getting them inside before they even get out to the ocean.
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#1021950 - 02/11/20 01:08 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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Probably Gov. Inslee's direct flush septic system at the Mansion.
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#1021955 - 02/11/20 01:48 PM
Re: "A Review of Hatchery Reform Science in WA State"
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Repeat Spawner
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For So. Puget Sound Steelhead, numbers can't even make out past the Straits! This is evidenced by acoustic transmitters planted in them. Something is getting them inside before they even get out to the ocean. Something = seals. And cormies, fb
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