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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: bluenoser on October 21, 2008, 07:44:46 AM

Title: Head return program
Post by: bluenoser 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.

Title: Re: Head return program
Post by: BwiBwi on October 21, 2008, 08:05:58 AM

Wow Idaho, that's neat!!!

Title: Re: Head return program
Post by: WildRod 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.

Title: Re: Head return program
Post by: clownfish 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.