- Life support is being pulled for species across the planet. With 8.2 billion humans, it’s no surprise. This is what ecological overshoot looks like. www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...
- Worth looking a bit more deeply here. Solid evidence that MRH has hosted a non-native strain for quite a long time and in doing so may well have done more damage than good to regional steelhead stocks. Better to focus on restoring habitat above the hatchery and elsewhere in the species range.
- I will note that “introgression” damage is hard to quantify. But there’s no real chance that non-native fish were good for the regional stock, and hatcheries have been shown to dilute the genetics of native populations. This was a production, not conservation, hatchery.
- Capitalism breeds lies
- What's your point here? Where is the lie?May 8, 2025 22:05
- This was a production, not conservation, hatchery,
- Huh? If it was an effective conservation hatchery, it would have used native stock and been operated to support the native population, not local harvest. Production hatcheries are designed to produce fish for harvest, often as a mitigation for losses in natural production due to dams, etc.
