I suppose it would be illegal for an individual to enhance a fish run in the U.S.

But it would be interesting to try...

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I know people that have done it, it worked well, they got busted, now they have big legal bills to pay.

Dang good ideal...but I bet the local bio's would have a cow over finding these incubators in the rivers.

It would be nice to have a run of steelhead returning to the backyard!

Mike

Since it's not a traditional "concrete pond" hatchery, it seems that if you used eggs & milt from local wild stock, there would be no drawbacks.

Disease is the draw back.

Yeah, that's what I want. A bunch of arm-chair "conservationists" out there with their own "hatcheries" doing Glub knows what to the river, fish, ecosystem, etc.

Good freakin' idea.

:rolleyes:

I heard Bill Gates has one in his yard on Lk Washington?

You can already do it here in Washington State - and it is legal. There is a program, administered by various volunteer fisheries enhancement groups, using a remote site incubator - http://www.aseg.org/index.php?pr=RSI_______________Pics
I believe the Bellevue/Lake Washington PSA chapter is doing several sites in the Lake Washington watershed. Others are being done in Kitsap County and Hood Canal. They can be placed in public sites, such as Marymoor Park, or private, stream-side locations. The remote site incubator has a much larger capacity and better survival rate than the Scotty. Eggs are approved by the State and tribes and available at hatcheries and, possibly from wild brood stock.

ok....ok but enough about the tribes....

TK,

Why would disease be more prevalent among 200 eggs in a little plastic box with water running through it than 200 eggs in a redd? The little beggars leave the box and bury themselves in the sand after they hatch.

Slab,

I don't know that it is. Everything I read about it for my stream said the avg. joe however was less likely to be able to identify a disease and that was the bigger issue. At that time you could not buy eggs unless you had the required permits etc. May have changed but I doubt it. I had visions of 50lb kings in my stream.