‘Shockingly huge’ steelhead salmon escape fish farm, threatening B.C.’s Lois Lake ecosystem

[agentaqua]

‘Shockingly huge’ steelhead salmon escape fish farm, threatening B.C.’s Lois Lake ecosystem

“These things are eating machines, and we don’t even know how big they're gonna get. The question is, ‘What’s the damage to the ecosystem?’” says fishing guide Pat Demeester about the escape of massive farmed rainbow trout into B.C.'s Lois Lake.

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Evidence suggests Lois Lake fish farm may be operating illegally | Watershed Watch Salmon Society

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[wildmanyeah]

is it really any different then stocking a lake with hatchery fish trout

"They are also supposed to be sterile, but Demeester occasionally catches fish that are sexually active, posing a risk the farmed fish will interbreed with native cutthroat."

BS

 

[wildmanyeah]

oh the humanity trophy size sterile stocked rainbows

 

[chris73]

I take that any day over sunfish, bullheads or carps for alien species!

 

[eroyd]

Lois Lake has been a pretty popular sports fishery the last few years. Maybe to well known now. Some big, weird looking salmonids pulled out of there.

 

[agentaqua]

Lois Lake has been a pretty popular sports fishery the last few years. Maybe to well known now. Some big, weird looking salmonids pulled out of there.

Ya been a number of FW aquaculture farms that have lost their stocks:

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