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bluenoser

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Head return program
« on: October 21, 2008, 07:44:46 AM »
Turned in a couple heads from clipped fish this summer caught fishing off Ucleulet....a coho and a spring.

The Spring was a hatchery fish from the Snake River in Idaho, the Coho was from a hatchery on the Island.

Kind of interesting to get the report and to know they can determine where these fish were raised.

The Spring didn't even have an American accent.
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BwiBwi

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Re: Head return program
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2008, 08:05:58 AM »
Wow Idaho, that's neat!!!
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WildRod

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Re: Head return program
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2008, 02:26:39 PM »
Do they give you a print out when you turn in the heads?  Or is this available online?  It would be interesting to see where the fish in our rivers are coming from.
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clownfish

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Re: Head return program
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2008, 02:51:48 PM »
WildRod, the salmon, steelhead, and searun cuttys that return (operative word "return" :)) to our rivers, are from our rivers, except for maybe the extremely occasional stray/lost fish (I've heard this can happen, but not from a fisheries biologist, soooo... :-\). The fish that bluenoser caught were in the "chuck", so there is a good chance of catching salmon, etc. from any location on the west coast of North Am. that is south of your fishing location, especially I would think, when you are fishing in the salt on the west coast of the Island.
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