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Caught a nice 36", 19.5# Adipose Clipped Steelhead today on the Nooch with both Ventral fins missing/clipped and healed over. First time I have seen this, any particular reason for it?
Just thought I'd add that the PSA/Save Our Fish chapter and the Green river Steelhead and the Muckleshoot tribe are the groups along with WDFW responsible for this exciting program to establish a late season sports fishery in the Green. We capture wild fish with rod and reel, transport them in a large PVC tube, truck them to the hatchery and propagate them. In addition to the ventral fin, the adipose is also clipped for identification as being a propagated fish, meaning, non-wild. We are lobbying hard to get the river open through March, but are having a problem with one of the groups involved.Loctite said:I dont know if they are doing an enhancement program on the Nooch. But on the Green we have clipped the ventral fin on smolts to mark them as a fish that came from Wild fish. The state fisheries go out and recover wild Steelhead and then spawn them in the hatchery. Then they release them at a larger size. They should have only clipped one fin. The left or the Right will tell them what year this fish is. They want you to take a scale sample (about 20 scales) and write down as much info on the fish that you can. length, hen or buck where you got it .....and so on. send it to the state. The workers at the fin clipping got to happy with the sessors. I'll post pics of a fin clipping when I get home. Nice work on the fish where are the Pics?
Let me get this straight. They are taking Wild Steelhead to the hatchery, breeding them, and then marking both the ventral AND the adipose??? So what happens when Average Joe Fisherman who is trained to bonk Hatchery fish catches them?the kid 2 said:Just thought I'd add that the PSA/Save Our Fish chapter and the Green river Steelhead and the Muckleshoot tribe are the groups along with WDFW responsible for this exciting program to establish a late season sports fishery in the Green. We capture wild fish with rod and reel, transport them in a large PVC tube, truck them to the hatchery and propagate them. In addition to the ventral fin, the adipose is also clipped for identification as being a propagated fish, meaning, non-wild. We are lobbying hard to get the river open through March, but are having a problem with one of the groups involved.Loctite said:I dont know if they are doing an enhancement program on the Nooch. But on the Green we have clipped the ventral fin on smolts to mark them as a fish that came from Wild fish. The state fisheries go out and recover wild Steelhead and then spawn them in the hatchery. Then they release them at a larger size. They should have only clipped one fin. The left or the Right will tell them what year this fish is. They want you to take a scale sample (about 20 scales) and write down as much info on the fish that you can. length, hen or buck where you got it .....and so on. send it to the state. The workers at the fin clipping got to happy with the sessors. I'll post pics of a fin clipping when I get home. Nice work on the fish where are the Pics?
Good post Loctite. clap:
We appreciate your enthusiasm for the program. I'm unsure of what brood year we are in as of now, but I believe it is the second year of returns. We should be seeing some fish in February and we would like to know if you should happen into one so let me know if you do via PM or this forum. Get scale sample from around the dorsal, length, girth and weight if you will please and take it to the Soos Creek Hatchery or contact me via this site and I'll pick it up from you.Vikingsteel12 said:Kid2. That is fantastic. Really a fantastic idea. So these fish are released so that they return later in the year like the natives, right? Also, which area do these fish return to. Is it Soos or up at KP? Those are the only two I know of.
We appreciate your enthusiasm for the program Vs. I'm unsure of what brood year we are in as of now, but I believe it is the second year of returns. Yes they are intended to mimic the wild/native return times and we should be seeing some fish in February. We would like to know if you should happen into one so let me know if you do via PM or this forum. Get scale sample from around the dorsal, length, girth and weight if you will please and take it to the Soos Creek Hatchery or contact me via this site and I'll pick it up from you.Vikingsteel12 said:Kid2. That is fantastic. Really a fantastic idea. So these fish are released so that they return later in the year like the natives, right? Also, which area do these fish return to. Is it Soos or up at KP? Those are the only two I know of.