"rw" wrote in message
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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.* The problem is that they're raised "in bulk," protected from the
vissicitudes of nature, such as predators, weather, and disease, until
they're smolts., and then they're released. They haven't gone through the
culling that they're wild cousins endure, so *they have inferior genetics
when they're released.*

IMO, of course. I'm just an armchair fisheries biologist. :-)

Well now, that's as fine a muddle headed example of neo-Lamarckian gibberish
as we've seen here all day.

Wolfgang
*emphasis added*