Hatchery Salmon Helps Fuel One-Third of Alaska's Huge Runs (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] April 23, 2015 This is Fish Radio.
I’m Laine Welch – Alaska salmon hatchery updates – more than a third of the catch. That’s up after this
Each year more than one third of Alaska’s salmon catch are fish that started out in hatcheries.
It’s very different from fish farming, where salmon are crammed into net pens until they’re ready for market. All salmon born in Alaska’s 31 hatchery facilities come from the wild, and are released as fingerlings to the sea.
Those fish make a huge contribution to the catch – Fish and Game’s annual Enhancement report shows that last year’s hatchery take of 58 million salmon was 34 percent of Alaska’s total harvest...
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