"jlp" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"rw" wrote in message
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Producing hatchery fish -- even ones bred from wild stock -- doesn't
change the genes...

Yes, it does. Every environment has its mutagens. No two are the same.

Wolfgang
who may have read it in "scientific american"......but doesn't think so.


Some science on the subject is a availble at the NFS web site,
http://www.nativefishsociety.org/library.htm

All of which is mildly interesting (if not necessarily an exhaustive or
unbiased survey of the extant literature on salmonid genetics), and presents
a fair to horse**** introduction (assuming one is generous enough to
overlook both a blatant bias and the absolutely pathetic device of simply
lifting brief quoted passages sans context or evidence) to a particular
point of view with regard to likely problems with hatchery breeding programs
(a point of view which, incidentally, I happen to share), but none of it has
anything at all to do with my point in response to Stevie's just plain wrong
factual statement.

Thanks.

Wolfgang