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I'll concede that point, but there is no way in hell that I would even touch a fish like that.
One other (underlying) concern would be: What happens WHEN, not IF these fish find their way into a waterway consisting of NATIVE trout, and subsequently replaces them?
How many ponds/lakes have been decimated by the introduction of a non-native species? Some may have been accidental, but some were not.
*The "Fisheries" aspect would be better suited to trying to clean up the existing rivers, stream and ponds to re-create a sustainable trout population. I wonder how many waterways in New England actually hold NATIVE brrok trout? I could probably count them on one hand.
Instead of trying to fix the underlying problem of water pollution and spawning access for trout/salmon, most fisheries feel content to just keep breeding and seeding a "put & take" fishery which does nothing more than guarantee that native trout will be (or may already be) gone for good. *Of course this is pure conjecture.*
I do applaud their efforts, since fixing the problems will take more money than they could ever hope to see, but I can't ignore what is being done "in the name of science and scientific advances".
I still can't get over the look of that fish. If I caught something like that, I'd throw it back and give up fishing that body of water thinking it was polluted to create a abberration like that.
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