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The controversy about salmon hatcheries The controversy about salmon hatcheries

The use of hatcheries has been a subject of lengthy debate in the management of salmon and trout resources in the Pacific Northwest. The problem has resulted in part from the wide distribution of hatchery fish in circumstances where natural populations were disadvantaged by management policy involving hatchery fish and the confusion of the effects of management with the effects of...
Authors
Ernest L. Brannon, Donald F. Amend, Matthew A. Cronin, J.E. Lannan, Scott LaPatra, William J. McNeil, Richard E. Noble, Charlie E. Smith, Andre J. Talbot, Gary Wedemeyer, Harry Westers
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