"Larry Caldwell" wrote in message
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In article , writes:

If they come back to the river, they are NOT farmed fish. THey are wild
salmon and caught by fishermen.

That's exactly what we have all been saying. There is no need to list
any Pacific salmon as endangered because there are huge runs of hatchery
fish. There is no difference between hatchery fish and wild fish.

Ah, but that is not what I said. There ARE large differences in both the
genetics, health, and life of farmed vs free running salmon. The ecology of
the two is also quite different. Free stream salmon contribute to the health
of the forest, for example. Penned fish tend to concentrate parasitic
infections and promote diseases. The idea that they are equivalent is quite
ludicrous.