02-01-2008, 03:24 PM
Kamloops. This subject just continues to come up year, after year, after year....
Growing big fish is typically a product of right environment -- NOT STRAIN!
In most areas, there is some other bottleneck that limits potential fish growth long before the strain of fish limits growth. In most cases, strain of rainbow trout hasn't made any difference at all in size of fish for Utah reservoirs. It's all about the environment. Flaming Gorge has changed over the years. Putting Kamloops back in place of the current strain of rainbows most likely will not result in larger sized rainbows.
Someone mentioned putting them in Strawberry -- what would change? Fishermen harvest rainbow trout (or cutthroat harvest rainbow trout...) so fast from Strawberry that the rainbows never have a chance of growing large. A different strain of rainbow trout (kamloops) won't change this. The limiting factor is NOT strain.
Fix the correct bottleneck to improve size of rainbow trout. The current limiting factors are not strain. Changing the wrong factor doesn't change the bottleneck.
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Growing big fish is typically a product of right environment -- NOT STRAIN!
In most areas, there is some other bottleneck that limits potential fish growth long before the strain of fish limits growth. In most cases, strain of rainbow trout hasn't made any difference at all in size of fish for Utah reservoirs. It's all about the environment. Flaming Gorge has changed over the years. Putting Kamloops back in place of the current strain of rainbows most likely will not result in larger sized rainbows.
Someone mentioned putting them in Strawberry -- what would change? Fishermen harvest rainbow trout (or cutthroat harvest rainbow trout...) so fast from Strawberry that the rainbows never have a chance of growing large. A different strain of rainbow trout (kamloops) won't change this. The limiting factor is NOT strain.
Fix the correct bottleneck to improve size of rainbow trout. The current limiting factors are not strain. Changing the wrong factor doesn't change the bottleneck.
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