Thread: Salmon

Originally Posted by mikee

Well fish and game used to run a salmon hatachery at Glenarrife and release salmon every year. Does not happen now i believe.
Water is extracted for a multitude of uses leaving rangitata, rakaia and ashburton as shadows of their former selves.
Licence holders would not mind restrictions in catch if other things were being done to try and improve things.......

Google salmon hatcheries and the evidence is overwhelming in saying they dont work. I personally believe that the smaller fish we have now are a product of mixing hatchery genetics with our wild fish, the genetics have been compromised hugely. I cant see any improvement in this as there are fish farms that have escapes and these probably/undoubtably imo influence the wild fish by cross breeding ?


I think this is one of the major influences in the poor returns and I think Fish and Game have really dropped the ball on this issue.

https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3...s-fish-screens


I think the other influence for pooer returns is warmer sea water, salmon are a cold water species.
Not much can be done about this.