a variety of references are available at
http://www.nativefishsociety.org/search.htm
a search for hatchery, hatcheries, genetics etc. will provide a number of
pointers
to the current science. Also,
http://www.nativefishsociety.org/docs/Biblio/bib.htm

--
Jeff

Kamchatka
http://home.teleport.com/~salmo/K2000/
NFS
http://NativeFishSociety.org


"Willi" wrote in message
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rw wrote:

I don't think the problem is that hatchery steelhead (bred from wild
stock) have inferior genetics at conception. They have the same genetics
as wild fish.


They do have different genetics from wild fish because we're choosing
which fish will reproduce instead of nature. It's as close as we can get
to reproducing what would have ocurred naturally, but the genetics
aren't the same.

Willi