Hatcheries vs. No Hatcheries
This ought to bring up a lot of armchair type discussion. In a previous post Dustin Revel metioned that he thought they (the Feds) ought to get rid of all hatcheries. It was stated that the Feds cut back on hatchery production and thus less steelhead in the rivers. I believe this hold true for salmon as well on other rivers such as the SAC and the Feather.
If this is in fact really true, then you could say that's why we're having such poor returns of both species in our rivers.
But, when the hatcheries where running in full capacity we had lots of fish in the rivers.
So, are were trying to get everything back to nature the way things were before dams and the lumber industry took it's toll with sedimentation, and miners did their damage with hydrolic excavation of gold?
We can't make things the way it used to be 150 years ago, anymore than we can reduce the population of California even if we sent every illegal back to where they came from.
My question is simply this: Would you rather fish in rivers full of hatchery fish or fish in rivers with few if any native spawned fish as conditions seem to be going by cutting back on hatchery production?
TONY
TONY BUZOLICH
Feather River Fly
Yuba City, CA.
(530) 790-7180
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