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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: SuperBobby on January 29, 2025, 09:31:22 AM

Title: What did they do to this poor guy?
Post by: SuperBobby on January 29, 2025, 09:31:22 AM
Posting has been slow so I thought I'd take a picture of what they are selling at Superstore.
Why did they do this to him? His head is a bit unproportioned to his body....They call him a 'steelhead'.


(https://i.imgur.com/5hDSIIt.jpg)
Title: Re: What did they do to this poor guy?
Post by: Darko on January 29, 2025, 10:06:11 AM
Quote from: SuperBobby on January 29, 2025, 09:31:22 AM
Posting has been slow so I thought I'd take a picture of what they are selling at Superstore.
Why did they do this him? His head is a bit unproportioned to his body....They call him a 'steelhead'.


(https://i.imgur.com/5hDSIIt.jpg)
supermarkets selling farmed trout as "steelhead" is like putting lipstick on a pig  ;D.
Title: Re: What did they do to this poor guy?
Post by: RalphH on January 29, 2025, 11:08:56 AM
Lois Lake fish farm near Powell River markets these as steelhead. Supposedly decades ago they obtained some excess steelhead stock and the marketing rights to call them steelhead. Last I heard they have been given a shutdown notice due to the high escape rates from their facility. Escaped trout have been caught in the 30lb range there.
Title: Re: What did they do to this poor guy?
Post by: Wiseguy on January 29, 2025, 01:36:45 PM
Quote from: RalphH on January 29, 2025, 11:08:56 AM
Lois Lake fish farm near Powell River markets these as steelhead. Supposedly decades ago they obtained some excess steelhead stock and the marketing rights to call them steelhead. Last I heard they have been given a shutdown notice due to the high escape rates from their facility. Escaped trout have been caught in the 30lb range there.
They are shut down now. Left town without cleaning up. Lots of debris was left behind. The huge net pen escaped rainbows are getting few and far between now in Lois lake.
Title: Re: What did they do to this poor guy?
Post by: clarki on January 29, 2025, 07:55:01 PM
The aquaculture equivalent of caged raised chickens whose breasts are reportedly 5 times larger than they were in the 1950s, and can barely walk because of the disportionate weight.
Title: Re: What did they do to this poor guy?
Post by: clarki on January 29, 2025, 08:01:14 PM
The body/head proportions reminds me of a Boeing Dreamlifter or Airbus Beluga😀
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Hamburg-Finkenwerder_Airport_Airbus_Transport_International_Airbus_A330-743L_Beluga_XL_F-GXLH_%28DSC09365%29.jpg/800px-Hamburg-Finkenwerder_Airport_Airbus_Transport_International_Airbus_A330-743L_Beluga_XL_F-GXLH_%28DSC09365%29.jpg)
Title: Re: What did they do to this poor guy?
Post by: iblly on January 30, 2025, 05:49:24 AM
I’ve heard stories of monster cutthroat in Lois lake. Could be just stories ?
Title: Re: What did they do to this poor guy?
Post by: RalphH on January 30, 2025, 09:22:49 AM
there are very large cutthroat in many of the lakes in that area.
Title: Re: What did they do to this poor guy?
Post by: wildmanyeah on January 30, 2025, 11:54:35 AM
I've caught pea head chinook that look like that

but yeah i get your guys point