Oregon Proposes Removing Hatchery Fish From Wild Fish Areas
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at 12:03AM
El Guapo in Conservation, fish in the news, hatcheries, hatchery fish vs wild fish

Cue the pro hatchery contingent. 

Hatchery-reared fish would get the heave ho from certain rivers along the Oregon Coast under the latest strategy to help Oregon’s wild salmon and steelhead.

The new management plan proposed by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife would designate several coastal rivers as “wild fish emphasis areas,” while increasing the number of hatchery fish planted in other coastal rivers to expand fishing opportunities in those waters.

(via: Oregon Public Radio)

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