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jayL
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They'd spread all over, just like the ontario fish do. It's an evolutionary hack. If they all spawned at the same spot, the entire population could be wiped out by a single event.
LRSABecker wrote:
The thing that kinda gets me is this, I was always under the assumption the TU was against stocking over wild and natives, correct? Why did the TU up near the Ausable request a large stocking of trout on the Ausable, so there would be more fish for a 2 fly contest? Also, been told they frequently request stockings on the LL. Am I just wrong?
Question.... Are the Steel programmed like the Salmon to return to their birth waters? If yes, then if the birthing was done on the Lehigh, would this not mean they would only return to the Lehigh?
LRSABecker wrote:
Also, I know the laughs will come or I will be getting yelled at by you guys, BUT....once the dams disappear Atlantic Salmon and (steelhead)
franklin wrote:
I'd be very surprised if the dam at Allentown gets removed. There are a number of homes on Adams Island that have docks and their value is increased a great deal by river access to that section of the river for water skiing etc. If the dam is removed I don't think the levels would support a pool anywhere near large enough for unlimited recreational boating. On Google Maps there appears to be a marina in that section as well.
gfen wrote:
LRSABecker wrote:
Also, I know the laughs will come or I will be getting yelled at by you guys, BUT....once the dams disappear Atlantic Salmon and (steelhead)
Oh for eff's sake, jam the steelhead up the doctor's netherbits. They belong on the damned west coast, where they started.
Do Altlantic salmon belong there, or is that just someone's* wetdream so they don't have to get in their damned car and drive the threeish hours to the Salmon River?
I wish people would be more concerned with trying to reverse collapsing ecosystems due to mankind's accelerated use of Earth rather than try to prop it up with their pet projects.
(* originally "stringer junkie," but in the interests of civility, it has been moved here, however, its way too fantastic a phrase to let go into that good night)
jayL wrote:
Billions? Seriously?
Sorry becker, but the bucket biology is getting ridiculous IMO. I'm with rhinestone jerry on this one.
jayL wrote:
I assumed you were wrong because you provided no supporting information, for what it's worth. You still haven't provided any.
And regardless, what price can we put on existing populations of fish that would be displaced? What about the brook trout streams that enter these waterways? They'd surely become steelhead spawning beds. Do we really want to open pandora's box?
acristickid wrote:
For those that have fished both- just curiuos, is the Lehigh similar do the Yough? I dont know a thing about the Lehigh but from the limited bits I gather it sounds similar to the Yough.
LRSABecker wrote:
Yea, I mean I know I would not want any of these fish in the Lehigh and Delaware system, because they would not bring billions of dollars into the economies of the towns up and down the rivers.
The Lehigh Valley: a natural and environmental history
In centuries past the Lehigh River served as a spawning ground for American Shad, alewives, and other sea-run species..."