A bad re-run coming on the Klamath?

Straydog · 06-19-2003, 08:44 AM

GutshotApe · 06-19-2003, 09:10 AM

So what percentage of the total hatchery juveniles released actually died? Most likely its a very small number...far less than 1%. Less than 1/10 of 1%? Or is it 1/100 of 1%? What are "normal" mortality rates when hoardes of smolts are dumped in the river? They don't all make it, you know.

Seems a little early to be sounding the general alarm...and to make comprisons of 100 dead smolts in the middle/upper river in June with dead hatchery adults in the lower river in August/Sept of a previous year is something of a stretch and inappropriate. What actual parameters are used in determining levels of "river stress"? Flows are 160 cfs less than last year? How bad is that? Expressed as a percentage of total flow I bet it is relatively insignificant this time of year.

Straydog · 06-19-2003, 09:17 AM

I sounded no alarm.
I made no comparisons.

I posed a question. (note the question mark) It is never too early to start asking questions, in my mind.

BTW, you posed good questions too. Of course, these questions lead to others......... how much are we paying for these hatchery fish? What percentage of those costs do we accept for dead fish and simply the cost of doing business? Are we managing hatcheries properly by dumping millions of fry all at once? Seems ma nature spread them out a bit, possibly for a reason.

As I say, it is never too early to question but questions do not have to equal "sounding the alarms" or making hasty, unfounded comparisons. :whazzup: