Good evening,
An A.P. article released in the Kanasas City Star by Jeff Barnard states that a 12 year study has been finished by Daniel Heath, expert in Conservation Genetics at the University of Windsor / Canada
The study done at Yellow Island Aquaculture in British Columbia found that Salmonids raised in hatchery conditions rapidly evolve to produce "smaller" eggs, as much as 25% smaller. It is further reported that this evolution is genetic in tendency because in hatchery conditions, there is NO competition for food like in the wild. The full report / study will be released in Fridays (3/14) Journal Science.
Anyone at Fly Fishing Forum / Wild Steelhead Coalition know about Heath and this study?
Deerhawk
An A.P. article released in the Kanasas City Star by Jeff Barnard states that a 12 year study has been finished by Daniel Heath, expert in Conservation Genetics at the University of Windsor / Canada
The study done at Yellow Island Aquaculture in British Columbia found that Salmonids raised in hatchery conditions rapidly evolve to produce "smaller" eggs, as much as 25% smaller. It is further reported that this evolution is genetic in tendency because in hatchery conditions, there is NO competition for food like in the wild. The full report / study will be released in Fridays (3/14) Journal Science.
Anyone at Fly Fishing Forum / Wild Steelhead Coalition know about Heath and this study?
Deerhawk