Make Abundance the Priority
It’s time to arm ourselves with facts and demand that our fisheries be managed for abundance and hatcheries receive the funding they deserve. (Read more)
Our Hatcheries Are in Jeopardy
Our Hatcheries are in Jeopardy. Approximately two-thirds of the hatcheries in Oregon were constructed to mitigate for lost natural fish production. Hatcheries didn’t cause the decline of natural production, instead for decades they have helped [...]
Confessions of a Hatchery Heretic
What if hatcheries could produce fish that would improve the survivability of wild runs if they did happen to reproduce? With return rates similar to wild fish? Wouldn’t you want to crank up hatchery production [...]
Hatchery & Wild Coexist responds to Patagonia’s Artifishal
After posting the link to Artifishal, a film that’s generating some controversy, several NOWA members asked to balance the discussion by provide some countering information on NOWA’s website. (Read more)
Wild Fish That Benefit From Hatchery Fish
Alaska. Silver salmon/coho (Orcorhynchus kisutch). Can hatchery salmon be produced that enhance the numbers of their wild cousins? There are numerous examples where hatchery fish have enhanced wild numbers and in some cases [...]
NWIFC’s Loomis Pans Patagonia’s Anti-hatchery Movie
Originally Posted on July 1, 2019 in NW Sportsman Magazine. by Andy Walgamott Link to original article. A major voice in Western Washington’s salmon fishery management world says thatPatagonia’s new Artifishal movie is a “misguided documentary full of [...]
Wild vs. Hatchery? Nope. Hatchery And Wild!
Originally Published on May 17, 2019 in the Salmon and Steelhead Journal Link to original article. By Bill Herzog Fellow steelheaders…unless you have recently emerged from a decade long hibernation in some Siberian cave, a day-long [...]
Ian Courter’s Ground Breaking Study
Originally Published on May 20, 2019 in the Salmon and Steelhead Journal Link to original article. New Study Shows Hatchery Summer Steelhead Did Not Negatively Impact Wild Winter Steelhead in the Clackamas River By Pat Hoglund, [...]