Originally Posted By: Stew
Originally Posted By: kevin lund
Parker,

There is a chance that years of inbreading hatchery scum has caused this problem?



The survival of the offspring of this inbreeding is minuscule but you make a good point.
For instance if a hatchery male fertilizes a wild females eggs then that negates those eggs because their survival is so poor.

ODFW has planted their broodstock "scum" throughout the Wilson river and so this interaction is facilitated by ODFW themselves.
Why do you think they opened the south fork after all these years?
The populations of wild winter steelhead were recovering in the Wilson and Nestucca rivers until the implementation of the steelhead broodstock programs and now are in decline. Volunteer to do redd surveys on either of those rivers and you agree.


Stew,

Help us understand what the answer is then....

Maybe I'm reading between the lines but the perfect world for "YOU" would be all the Oregon coastal rivers having no hatchery plants or broodstock fish and bait restricted rivers that guides wouldn't be allowed to fish?

Hey, you don't flyfish do you?

Keith thumbs
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