Thread: Salmon

Originally Posted by mikee

Originally were wild fish and thru 70s/80s ish supplemented by Acclimatisation Society (Now F&G) stripping eggs from wild fish and hatching them / returning smolt to rivers.

how were they origonally wild fish??? they had to come from somewhere to begin with.....
now if only the biggest fish were used as donors would it not counteract the argument of poor genetics??? I seem to recall something similar done with trout in Taupo some years back...