Originally Posted By: SBD
The hatchery's started with wild stock so I pretty sure if you left them alone, they would return to wild stock provided they have suffient habitat and food to support them. There's a zipperlip run of late kings in oregon that I know was started with hatchery stock and discontinued after a few years. The run is still there, small and barely fished but its holding its own.


I for one understand hatchery fish can create spawning populations but it contradicts with what a lot of people want the believe and what most biologists will tell you...

But that starts a whole new arguement that's been beat like a dead horse...

Keith
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