Oregon Coast Fishing, Guides and Charters!
Seaside, Astoria, Tillamook Bay, The Wilson, The Kilchis, The Trask, The Nestucca,
The Nehalem, The Necanicum, Youngs Bay, The Columbia River and the Washington
tributaries of the lower Columbia estuaries.
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Wilson Broodstock: |
Broodstock |
Nestucca Broodstock: |
The broodstock program needs volunteers!
The closure of three major North Coast Hatcheries
has stopped the broodstock program.
Please join us, as we volunteer to meet the needs of this program.
We will use this page to get the latest news and needs out to you.
Please use the above contacts for more direct inquiries.
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ABOUT BROODSTOCK PROGRAMS Broodstock programs by volunteer organizations are nothing new. They go back to the early '80's or on the South Coast of Oregon. The North Coast Sportsmans Club in Clatsop County spawned hook and line caught wild steelhead and raised the eggs to full smolts beginning in the late '80's. The Wilson River steelhead program began in 1997 and the fall chinook and steelhead programs on the Nestucca in 2000 . In Oregon, volunteer broodstock programs are monitored and closely supervised by O.D.F.& W. biologists under STEP (Salmon & Trout Enhancement Program). . Broodstock programs are hatchery programs in which "hatchery" salmon, steelhead, or trout are reared from the spawning of wild adults to produce consumptive fisheries with minimal disturbance of the genetics of the streams involved. Also, a broodstock program can help rebuild wild runs where overfishing has decimated the wild population. The idea is to grow hatchery fish from wild parents that "belong" in the stream(s) involved. The adults are usually obtained by hook and line and are transported to a facility where they are ripened and spawned with the progeny raised to smolt stage (ie: ready to go to sea) then planted in the streams from which the parents were obtained. Thus, healthier, genetically more appropriate hatchery fish are produced. Adults may also be obtained by trapping in streams where fish ladders already exist. Volunteer broodstock programs take money for feed and facililities and substantial volunteer efforts of people who care enough. |