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Author:
knowfish
Date:
Jul 22, 2012
Subject:
End Of The Atlantic Salmon Program
Message:
It looks like the end of the atlantic salmon program after years of effort and failure. There's an editorial in the Hartford Courant reporting that the federally funded program will end in a short time due to failure to reap salmon returns and damage done to the federal salmon hatchery in Vermont from flooding after hurricaine Irene. This will bring an end to the fall stocking of Broodstock Salmon in the Naugatuck and Shetucket rivers. I treid to enter the URL for the article in this post but it wouldn't go. The story is entitled After 45 years of trying , the salmon never made it back.
I wish they'd consider other species to stock , like maybe steelhead.
Author:
NorthEastFisherman
Date:
Jul 22, 2012
Message:
Ive never been to these rivers but ive seen pictures of huge salmon from there. What size were they when they were stocked because the pictures show pretty big fish id say 4lbs+.
Author:
SeaDog1
Date:
Jul 22, 2012
Message:
Hi,
It's about time !
That Atlantic Salmon Restoration program was a big farce and never going happen, and a total waste of tax payers money to even try bring them back.
Salmon need cold pristine flowing water to survive and reproduce.
The Southern New England waters will never ever be that again.
Waters get to warm, too much polution, and loss of spawning areas.
Best would be to propogate a "Sea Run Brown Trout" run.
They grow very large, super hard fighters, and can tolerate the now water conditions that salmon cannot.
Massachusetts did this with great success! thumbup
SeaDog1
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