What happens when wild salmon interbreed with hatchery fish?
An intervention is needed to address Alaska’s hatchery addiction. A research project by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game looking at chum and pink salmon runs …
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Salmon Ceasefire
Wrap your head around this factoid. Alaska dumps 1.8 billion hatchery salmon into the ecosystem. Alaska’s salmon farmers and their critics have come to an agreement …
Hatchery Misfits
Scientists studying pink salmon in Alaska’s Prince William Sound have come to a startling conclusion: Female hatchery fish gone feral reproduce at only about half …
Groups fight plan to eliminate hatchery steelhead from North Santiam River
Oregon fishing groups are fighting a plan to eliminate summer (hatchery) steelhead from the North Santiam River. Last October, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers …
The Cost of Trout Fishing
Douglass Thompson, a professor of geology at Connecticut College, argues in this 2015 The New York Times op-ed that “We are devastating populations of marine species simply to support …
Try something different than hatcheries to save fish
Pete Soverel writes about the abysmal results of using hatchery steelhead as a fisheries management tool and why it’s time we should try something different. …
Alaska fisheries board rejects effort to block pink salmon hatchery increase
Maybe part of the reason salmon runs throughout the state of Alaska are in decline is due to the copious amounts of hatchery fish they …
Anglers Group, Fish Farm Reach Deal on Disputed Hatchery
A fish farming company conceded defeat Thursday in its quest to raise rainbow trout in a hatchery on a revered northern Michigan stream, signing a deal with …
FUBAR Alert: 2,000 fish killed in hatchery ‘die-off’
State officials have informed Anglers of the Au Sable that at least 2,000 fish died around July 13 at the Harrietta Hills Fish Hatchery, located …
Alaska sport fishing groups fight boost to hatchery production
In a long-fought battle in Alaska fisheries, private nonprofit hatcheries release hundreds of millions of juvenile pink salmon each year into Prince William Sound. The …