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Verdi

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Feeding steelhead and salmon smolts in local rivers.
« on: April 27, 2009, 09:22:09 PM »
I just got the new May 2009 STS magazine and they comment and sell food for feeding smolts in the wild.

They suggest that since their rivers have no huge returns of dead salmon and eggs to promote growth and fertilize the river, that many salmon and steelhead smolts will starve in less nutrient rich rivers.

So they recommend that you buy fish food pellets (Same as fish Farms), and distrubute them on you fishing trip to help bring back the number of fish in the river.

Of coarse they recommend hide out of sight when you feed the smolts, and you feed the smolts between April- Oct.

They sell feed for the fish from there Amato Publishing.

This is the first i have ever heard of this, I always assumed it was illegal to feed wild animals, unless they took it off my hook.
But people feed wild birds.

Have you heard of this thing happening up here in BC..
 
In theory it should work or would it just be a drop in the bucket.

I personally would wait for it to be recommend locally, but what a great way for us to help save the fish we love, the more you fish the more you can feed the little ones, but on the other hand what makes our wild fish great  is that only the strong survive.

I just found it odd that Sts magazine would recommend this to there readers.







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Re: Feeding steelhead and salmon smolts in local rivers.
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2009, 10:08:54 PM »
Hmmmm.....
so Amato publishing is selling fish food..... don't they publish STS magazine....
ironic, what a gimmick and btw in no way is that healthy for a river system  lol
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Sam Salmon

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Re: Feeding steelhead and salmon smolts in local rivers.
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2009, 10:54:15 PM »
Sounds like a stupid idea and a dumb gimmick to sell more of their useless magazine.

And as mentioned in no way healthy for a stream and almost certainly against the regs here in BC probably the old standard "Introducing a substance deleterious to fish habitat"
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Re: Feeding steelhead and salmon smolts in local rivers.
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2009, 03:52:10 PM »
I'm involved in several fertilization programs, knowing what I know I would say its not legal up here. they go through many hours of research to see what effects this "introduced" stuff has on the environment, and monitor what happens though the application.
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Re: Feeding steelhead and salmon smolts in local rivers.
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2009, 05:19:04 PM »
Quote from: jetboatjim on April 28, 2009, 03:52:10 PM
I'm involved in several fertilization programs, knowing what I know I would say its not legal up here. they go through many hours of research to see what effects this "introduced" stuff has on the environment, and monitor what happens though the application.

Exactly-it has to be a balance of nutrients otherwise everything could get buggered up PDQ.
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