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#133493 - 01/04/02 03:33 PM adipose - ventral ?
Doug Kelly Offline
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Registered: 02/22/00
Posts: 752
Loc: Bothell WA
in the regs it states hatchery steelhead are identified by missing adipose OR ventral fins could someone shed some light on the matter as to why ventral missing fins steelhead on the cow must be released?

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#133494 - 01/04/02 08:38 PM Re: adipose - ventral ?
JR32 Offline
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Registered: 09/03/01
Posts: 193
Loc: shelton wa
I don't know the story on the cow but there is a very good chance that those fish are from a test plant some where just my .02
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#133495 - 01/04/02 08:55 PM Re: adipose - ventral ?
Fish Jesus Offline
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Registered: 09/25/01
Posts: 768
Loc: Tacoma
I believe that those fish are offspring of ventral marked adults that were recovered and then trucked above the dam to naturally spawn. The smolt are then captured in smolt traps, marked and released with the general population. When those ventral marked fish are captured the cycle continues.

Just what I have heard thru the grapevine. Perhaps
Cowlitzfisherman has a more correct perspective.

FJ...out.

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#133496 - 01/04/02 11:22 PM Re: adipose - ventral ?
cowlitzfisherman Offline
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Registered: 06/14/00
Posts: 1866
Loc: Toledo, Washington
On the Cowlitz, all right ventral fin clipped steelhead must be released in the lower river below the barrier Dam. rolleyes

These fish were raised above the dams for a special sport fishery in the upper Cowlitz above the Cowlitz Falls Dam. laugh They may be kept or taken (and yes, killed) in the daily bag limit their. laugh

In addition, if these reportedly "genetic late stocks" are not harvested or caught during the "sport fishery", they would then be allowed to spawn and add to the natural production of the what WDFW now call "wild late Cowlitz winter steelhead stocks" confused

Hope this answers your question!

Cowlitzfisherman

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#133497 - 01/05/02 03:58 AM Re: adipose - ventral ?
stlhdr1 Offline
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Registered: 01/26/00
Posts: 6424
Loc: Vancouver, WA
I had always wondered that myself, sort of screwy to me. Just what most want to do go up and catch some spawners above the dam... frown
Keith laugh
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