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loco local
I caught and released a farmed hatchery salmon and now I'm wondering
if it was such a smart thing to do cause it might spawn a wild fish and
introduce its genes to the wild's gene pool there by polluting that
wild fish's offspring with weaker genes and well even the d.f.o. scientists
should figure that one out,well maybe not,they're not the swiftest
bunch are they? Bonk your hatchery farm fish.
Where did you catch the farmed salmon? Anyone catching a farmed salmon
should bonk it and report the kill to the DFO or to your nearest CO. I
believe they need this info to present data of escapement of farmed salmon
returing to our wild rivers. You could, should, probably still give a
call to the DFO to let them know you caught a farmed salmon.
I too am curious as to where this farmed salmon was caught, as i was under
the impression that salmon runs in the Lower Mainland don't start
fully till the spring. Also, if it is farmed, good chances it is an Atlantic
which would suck. I would also like to know how to determine if a fish
came from a farm, I was unaware that they clipped the fish in a farm.
I think this is a scenario where some confusion is between a "farmed"
fish and a "hatchery" fish. Two totally different things.
Obviously the guy is just refering to a hatchery fish, if you read the
entire post its quite obvious. Its just his wording is off, by calling
it a "hatchery farmed fish".
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Mike how is this "obvious" by reading the rest of his post. Maybe
he does not understand the difference between a hatch job and a farmed one.
Possibly he has gotten caught up in all of the media attention given to
the fish farms as of late, so he urges people to bonk all the hatchery fish
to somehow punish the fishfarms. It is my belief that hatchery steelhead
are taken from wild stocks, so I don't buy the weaker gene scenario.
If they make it to the ocean, reach adulthood and return to spawn, then
would they not be considered stronger than one that didn't. Regardless,
the culling of hatchery steelhead shouldn't be encouraged as a "conservation"
measure. The more steelies around the better!
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