Originally Posted by
Bill Kiene
We have been discussing all this salmon and steelhead hatchery "stuff" for decades now.
My feelings is that they could take wild fish from the river and spawn them in the hatchery to get high numbers of success, then at a young age let them go at the hatchery into the river and let them be wild from then on.
Raising them in raceways for a long time and feeding them doesn't make for survivors in the wild, as I see it.
Not a biologist so this is just my 'two bits worth'.......
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