Steve_sullivan wrote:

Well why dont they just release the steelhead into the river at a
earlier time? I guess it would be preety hard to implant the eggs
into
redds, but they could release the salmon fry. Of course they would
have
to release alot more (something like 100 times more salmon fry than 1
year old's?)

We had a discussion about this with some folks from Washington Trout.
They got all excited about the selection that goes on getting the eggs
to stay in the redd, and all that stuff. I think you'd find it would
take closer to 1000 times as many eggs to get the fish up to 10 inches
safely, and the 10 inch size is what they release. Any process of
inserting the eggs in the redds would be horibly expensive to implement.

Chas
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