natural spawners

I had thought I had read that the average was in the 40% range or so that was natural spawners. I cant find the article though.

We had this discussion months ago.To sum it up:the steel/rainbow is next to zero,the Salmon have a good return on spawners.Why is that?The trout fry stay in the rivers for a year and can't survive the warm temps,the salmon leave the river in the spring of the first year so they live out in the lake.If the hatchery would not stock the smolts in the spring there would be no steel to speak of.

Mike Connerton, the biologist in charge of the fin clip trailer for DEC, reported at the State of the Lake meeting that they have enough data on Kings to report 30+% of the returning fish in the SR are wild. The next fish they will evaluate is cohos, maybe steelhead after that.

L13

DB-

Are you referring to the cohos that were reported, here, to be late spawning? Cohos spawn later than kings in their native natural ecosystems. Also spawning season modification is confirmed in some GL tribs in scientific studies, for Rainbows, so you've probably been observing modification, and I've seen it too, but not huge numbers of fish, in SR bows that are out of the normal spawning season range, if it was early spawning 'bows. Mid winter is late for cohos, early for Bows in their native systems, but most of these fish are supposed to be adjacent and connected to the Pacific Ocean, so they are adapting to a foreign ecology even after this many years, and a lot of changes occur under those conditions. And reproduction time also gets distributedg along a normal curve,so if something catastrophic happens early or late, or inthe middle, the species is not obliterated.

L13