100%! I see red, every time hear one of their cocked up ideas.....natetreat wrote:Hatcheries are the easy target. They're a sitting duck. Stopping them will do nothing for our wild fish. We will never EVER see the historical numbers. Urban development, dams, ocean conditions dikes habitat destruction, predation... These are all the reasons. Not hatchery fish. WFC needed a pay day, and they are a bunch of idiot fly flickers. Conservation needs to take into account the needs of fisheries, sport anglers and others to be successful. Cherry picking and taking potshots at sport anglers is only going to hurt the cause. It shouldn't be dem/republican, we're all concerned parties. Maybe we should have herring hatcheries and an open season on seals and cormorants. That would work 100% better than removing our RESPONSIBLE hatcheries. Put all the dead hatchery salmon back in the river for the nutrients. I can barely read these articles and threads without punching my keyboard. WFC is a bunch of real life trolls.
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Ca. has never had any hatcheries, they hammered their King runs on the Sac., years ago and as they continue to fish the crap out of the herring and anchovies it still has not recovered through the "Natural" recovery process. It will never happen.
Our problem is just as our friends down South, the runs will never repair themselves as long as we keep making the mistakes and going down the same road as they have. To recover the runs, we need to stop the bait fish fisheries, repair habitat and bolster runs with hatchery fish. The return percentage is much greater with hatchery fish than it is with natives. Until the problem is tackled from all sides, it will never get better.
