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Entries in hatchery fish vs wild fish (62)

Wednesday
Jun182014

Fish evacuated from American River hatcheries

Something is wrong in Denmark when you're forced to start evacuating fish hatcheries.

The ongoing drought in California is forcing state officials to evacuate rainbow trout and steelhead fish from two hatcheries on the American River amid concern the water will become warm enough to kill the fish in coming weeks.

LINK (via: The Sacramento Bee)

Thursday
Jun052014

Study: Hatcheries can disrupt steelhead navigation

Yet further proof hatchery fish are inferior to the wild variety.

A new study suggests steelhead trout can have trouble using the Earth's magnetic field to navigate if they were raised in a hatchery, where the field may be distorted by iron pipes.

LINK (via: Idaho Business Review)

Sunday
Jun012014

OSU: Wild salmon smarter than hatchery fish 

Wednesday
May142014

Washington's disappearing icon

Finally some press on the impacts of hatchery fish on wild steelhead in Washington.

Wednesday
May142014

Police seek steelhead bandits

Vandalism or activism? Seriously?

Washington state’s five steelhead hatcheries are on high alert after someone broke into a facility overnight and released approximately 25,000 juvenile fish into the Snoqualmie River.

State Fish and Wildlife Hatchery managers are concerned it was an act of defiance against a new agreement that sharply curtails the state’s steelhead hatchery program.

LINK (via: KING 5)

Saturday
May102014

Bite me

Experiment to settle whether wild steelhead are really better biters than hatchery steelhead.

LINK (via: Star Tribune)