David Johnson
12-15-2000, 12:57 AM
What is every ones feelings about having a run of spring chinook that is 9,000 fish, 8,500+ of which are hatchery the other 500 are wild spawned but came from hatchery parents. And you had to release 60% of the fish you caught?
Sure releasing fish is cool and all but isn't it a waist to spend the day trying to catch a
fish or two and then just having to release these hatchery fish?
This is what is probably going to happen on the Clackamas River.
This spring ODFW is proposing to open the Clackamas seven days a week to fin clip only
salmon. The problem is only around 40% of the hatchery fish will be fin clipped. the other
60% will have to be let go. What does the state do with the serplus fish? Sell them, of
course.
What about the wild fish you say that they are trying to preserve? Any wild fish in there have come from parrents that are of hatchery origin. River Mill dam stood blocking that river for 20+ years with no fish ladder. Not until they built the ladder and planted hatchery spring chinook from other systems such as the upper Willamette and even Wind River in Washington did they have fish going up there above the dam.
Doesn't this sound useless?
David Johnson
Sure releasing fish is cool and all but isn't it a waist to spend the day trying to catch a
fish or two and then just having to release these hatchery fish?
This is what is probably going to happen on the Clackamas River.
This spring ODFW is proposing to open the Clackamas seven days a week to fin clip only
salmon. The problem is only around 40% of the hatchery fish will be fin clipped. the other
60% will have to be let go. What does the state do with the serplus fish? Sell them, of
course.
What about the wild fish you say that they are trying to preserve? Any wild fish in there have come from parrents that are of hatchery origin. River Mill dam stood blocking that river for 20+ years with no fish ladder. Not until they built the ladder and planted hatchery spring chinook from other systems such as the upper Willamette and even Wind River in Washington did they have fish going up there above the dam.
Doesn't this sound useless?
David Johnson