Triploid Females and other Frankenfish

[moltogordo]

It seems that the Fish and Wildlife boys are using sterile female triploid hatchery fish for pretty much all of the stocking these days.

Does anybody here besides me find this repulsive?

I have much more sympathy at this point for those folks in the south Okanagan who are dumping bass, perch and bluegills from lake to lake so they can take a few fish home that live and breed naturally. Knowing what I know now, I seriously doubt I'd report this type of violation at this point.

Comments?

[phearless]

Stocking sterile fish is one thing, especially when done by trained biologists.
But dumping non-native, invasive species into our waterways, hold on there pardner!

Enough has been said about this elsewhere.
Let's use our heads about this.
If all we are looking for is fish to bonk, which I do, bonk the triploids.
That's what they are there for.
Stocker are eaters.

[wicket]

and they will grow larger because they wont put any energy into egg production. you guys dont want invasive species ....at any cost. even though there are there and most likely spreading. just wondering ...why is this repulsive.....like molto said they are what they are.

[moltogordo]

Originally Posted by phearless

Stocking sterile fish is one thing, especially when done by trained biologists.
But dumping non-native, invasive species into our waterways, hold on there pardner!

Enough has been said about this elsewhere.
Let's use our heads about this.
If all we are looking for is fish to bonk, which I do, bonk the triploids.
That's what they are there for.
Stocker are eaters.

And Dr. Mengeles was a trained doctor.

I don't understand your logic - over 90% of the waters in BC are stocked with Rainbow Trout (now triploid frankenfish) and these waters are naturally troutless - bows need moving water to spawn in and these lakes don't have inlet or outlet streams.

These lakes have naturally occuring chub, squawfish, dace, suckers and burbot, but no frigging trout! The stocked rainbow are just as non-native as the bass the local anglers are stocking, and have no more business being there.

My point was I don't want to put genetically modified fish into my diet. PERIOD. Others feel the same way and are tired of the f&w "experts" making those kinds of decisions for them.

Sorry, but I agree with them.

[moltogordo]

I know that the next rebuttal will be something like "well, fishing is a voluntary sport, so you don't have to fish, or you don't have to fish in these waters."

Truly a chickenschytte mind set because it is not answering the bottom line charge of genetic modification in a democratic society.

I have a natural right to feed myself, family and friends with good, natural food. I am being bullied by "trained biologists" into buying genetically modified vegetables, herbs, meat - which makes up about 80% of what you buy in the supermarket, including, unfortunately, organically grown items. The rules say you may not feed them such, but the rules do not govern their seed parentage.

One of the reasons I fish and hunt is to provide unaltered protein for the table. Now this reason is being aborted. I think we who hunt and fish should be showing some kind of leadership in this regard.