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Jane you ignorant slut. David Moscowitz Executive Director of the Conservation Angler: Remove hatchery fish so wild salmon and steelhead can thrive. Jack Smith President of …
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Trucking Is Mucking Up Chinook Salmon Diversity
Approximately half of the roughly 32 million juvenile fall-run Chinook produced by Central Valley hatcheries each year are trucked and released directly into the San Francisco …
Scientists Look At Hatchery Salmon Genetics To Help Survival Rate In The Wild
Researchers in Canada are examining the genetics of salmon raised in hatcheries to figure out why their survival rate is low when they’re released into …
Epigenetic Differences Between Hatchery-Raised and Wild-Born Salmon
Hatchery welfare state advocates often argue that hatchery fish are genetically the same as their wild counterparts. Yeah about that. Biologist Lois Bernatchez and his colleagues …
Hatchery Fish Often Fail in the Wild. Now We Might Know Why
Wild salmon are struggling to get their groove back. Along North America’s Pacific coast, salmon populations—already hit by overfishing—have been forced to dodge the Blob …
‘We’ve been managing salmon wrong for about 125 years’
Biologists Rick Williams and Jim Lichatowich and their co-authors challenge the basis of salmon management for the past century. They argue that reliance on hatcheries, indiscriminate …
Scientist says hatchery strays could threaten wild fish populations
Whether it’s thanks to environmental cues, a keen sense of smell or a nifty magnetic instinct, Pacific salmon’s ability to navigate back to their home streams has captivated …
All In The Family: Inbreeding At California Steelhead Hatcheries
Genetic research by the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center revealed that fish from the Mokelumne River and Feather River fish hatcheries are essentially the same …
Salmon hatchery findings should inform a top-to-bottom review
Some common sense questions about hatchery expenditures. Salmon recovery spending dwarfs in scale many legislative commitments, and many capital improvement programs at the municipal level. …
Hatchery life changes fish genetics
A new study out of Oregon State University lays to rest the debate over whether hatchery life changes fish at the genetic level. It does! …