Triploid trout

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Discussion is a good thing and this is a good topic for anglers to get their thought process going. I think that hatchery costs also play into the equation where there isn't enough resources to do everything and the most beneficial over all must be the course you take. I think a lot of lakes it would not matter if you planted non sterile fish because the lake does not have the habitat to have successful spawning anyway. The common thought is that bows are not native and shouldn't be able to spawn, cutts are native and they should be brought back everywhere within their native range. I personally do not buy into that thought wave because we as humans have destroyed much of their original habitat and to think that we can bring them back everywhere is foolish. Here is one example. The Bear river narrows below Oneida Res. The push is to bring back the native cutt and I know that the Feds and Pacific Power money have something to do with this thought wave. Sorry just not buying into that river ever being able to support a natural cutt spawn every again. A few years back it was an amazing bow and brown fishery and now it isn't. There are places that where the fish in the system that are doing well now are the fish that should be promoted and nutured. Those places are the ones that we screwed up as humans and we can't bring them back to their natural state. There are places that we should do everything that we can to preserve them or bring them back if it's possible but it's not every water. Humans aren't going away soon or reducing their numbers and we have to deal with it logically.
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