15+3+8 = Losing well - By Bob Hooton.

[OldBlackDog]

15 + 3 + 8 = Losing Well

A few weeks ago I watched a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation piece dealing with Parkinsons disease and the relentless pursuit of solutions to that agonizing affliction by the incomparable M…

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[Bryan Allen]

Thanks for posting OBD. A disturbing read.

 

[steeler]

Thanks for still trying to get all the disturbing facts out about the decline of steelhead as depressing as it is. One factor that is rarely mentioned about the decline of steelhead in the stamp is the removal of wild fish for brood stock. The few fish that make it back still have to not be caught and stuck in a bag, of the few fish I manage to catch very few are hatchery and I have a strong feeling the lower survival rate of hatchery fish is a huge waste of time. There is no need for a meat fishery involving steelhead period and it is time the regulators actually start doing their jobs and make the changes that need to happen and stop sitting on their hands while steelhead go extinct. Regulating the things we can control would give the fish a fighting chance. sockeye are a good size this year so hard to say ocean conditions are unfavorable easy to say river conditions are unfavorable because there is no political will to make them favorable.

 

[Whitebuck]

Couldn't agree more with Steeler.
Have literally watched a few streams over the last couple decades get "tubed to extinction".

The early upper (December/January)stock Chilliwack Steelhead were a prime example of what happens when we tubed too many early on.