Fish food :grin:

 

very good! :cheers:

I was hoping for something a bit more specific.

 

Marie's Salmon Feast?

Lucky smolts.

 

Might be where they got that Carrot Milk

The fish can't leave that stuff alone :grin:

 

Sorry, couldnt resist...Not sure what's in it, but they are little brown pellets..I thought I remembered seeing a post about this a while back.

 

I was told that the adult coho carcasses from bonneville and other hatcherys that are not for human comsumption quality this time of year went to the fish food factory?

UG

 

I do know that they add garlic to the pellets. I always add Pro Cures Garlic plus and Garlic Slamola powder to all my scents and smelly jellies. :cheers:

 

I've been to some hatcheries, out of state, that use Purina Trout Chow. No joking.

I don't know what they use here in Oregon but an email to a fisheries biologist would probably get the answer.

Greg

 

So do you want specifics or just a quick overview?
Uglygreen is correct on the salmon carcases going back for recycling. Hatcheries feed dry and moist pellets to the fish. with the pellet being 65 to 85% fish. Other ingredients are blood meal, bone meal, wheat or other grains, vitamins, and medicins for medicated feed. They also in the private industries add dye to color the meat of the fish. And the Purina Trout chow use to be a mainstay for the private fish farms in Idaho. Worked two yeas over there rasing everything from trout,catfish,talapia,sturgeon,and Gators. :grin:
Hope this helps. :cheers:
Hagen

 

Here in Utah is where most of the hatchery food is made - in fact in today's paper was a story about the mill.

Here is the link - small world isn't it??

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Nov/11112003/Business/109967.asp

Good luck trying to put the pellet on your hook..

 

Watched a show on the discovery channel last Friday night about gross jobs. The Bio Oregon company was on there making fish food and fertilizer. What they showed was ground up fish heads and guts made into a paste and then powder blood added. At the end of the show they were at a hatchery feeding the fish. If you ever drive out by the factory in Warrenton their recipe smells just like what they said it was.

notaclue

 

Sooooo El Kaboink,

Just what are you cooking up?

 

I thought i done heard somewhere that "Northern Pikeminnow" were ground up and fed to smolts added into pellet stuff.....True?

MrDorkfish

Louis

 

http://www.tidepool.org/dispatches/amphipods.cfm

 

me cooking up something, not me.

just wondering what hatchery fish eat.

 

Purina trout chow. You can buy it in big bags at some feed and grain stores. There is also aonther brand that has a smaller pellet.
GBS

 

WARNING!!!!!! Do not sneak into the kitchen at night and grind up the fish food pellets in your wifes coffee grinder. It WILL stain the plastic, and the smell will NOT come out with ordinary cleaning measures. Don't ask me how I know this. Or if you do ask, don't bring it up in front of my wife. :wink:

RF

 

RougeFishr
"WARNING!!!!!! Do not sneak into the kitchen at night and grind up the fish food pellets in your wifes coffee grinder. It WILL stain the plastic, and the smell will NOT come out with ordinary cleaning measures. Don't ask me how I know this. Or if you do ask, don't bring it up in front of my wife."

True. But when the grindings are mixed with certain "secret" additives they are dynamite on planted hatchery trout. You need to explain this to your wife. She will understand.
BTW OMP works better than dry pellets.

 

I thought they fed them Power Bait. :shrug: :grin:

Actually if you look back at the history of it I believe they were feeding them tripe, condemmed meat and all sorts of good stuff back in the good old days.

Hatchery fish didn't survive too well and were disease prone and if I recolect they didn't get the feed figured out until the 60's or 70's when they really started having sucess with hatchery fish survival and wild fish downfall. :shocked:

:depressed:

 

But when the grindings are mixed with certain "secret" additives they are dynamite on planted hatchery trout

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Ahhh haaaaa....

 

BTBW
" I recolect they didn't get the feed figured out until the 60's or 70's when they really started having sucess with hatchery fish survival and wild fish downfall. "

I believe it was in the '60s when Duncan and his folks developed OMP which led to the silver population booms of succeeding years.
I believe wild fish downfall began much earlier.

Without OMP and its successors we would not have had much of a silver harvest in the past 30 or so years.

 

most of the food is coated with krill kinda primes them for there life out side the river

 

I was told by an old timer that before they used pelleted feed or ground up meat protein, the hatcheries used to get old carcasses and hang them over the raceways in the hot sun. To feed the fish one of the guys walked around the raceways and poked at the carcasses to knock maggots into the water. Don't know if this is true but, the theory is sound (although the smell would be unreal :shocked: ).

 

"the hatcheries used to get old carcasses and hang them over the raceways in the hot sun. To feed the fish one of the guys walked around the raceways and poked at the carcasses to knock maggots into the water. "

I can remember this being done with dead rats hung from a line. Jerk the line a couple of times and off go the maggots into the water.