“NOAA believes it’s risky to rely too much on hatcheries"

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) wants to see at least four Southwest Washington streams identified as wild steelhead strongholds with no planting of hatchery fish beginning in 2014.

Money quote from Rob Jones, hatcheries and inland fisheries chief for NMFS.

“NOAA believes it’s risky to rely too much on hatcheries and that some areas that are important to steelhead should not be planted with hatchery fish,’’ Jones said.

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