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McKenzie River Reflections...
Columbia Basin Bulletin Posted on Friday, March 14, 2014 (PST) “The release of hatchery smolts this year, even with some reductions in two of the programs, still is likely to cause unacceptable harm to wild fish in the Sandy River,” according to a reply brief filed March 9 in federal court by the Native Fish Society and McKenzie Flyfishers. They say hatchery fish compete with wild fish for food, habitat, and spawning space, prey on wild fish, dilute the fitness of wild fish when they interbreed, spread disease to wild fish and sig...