The thing that ticks me off is when they started the first experimental farms they said there was little of no chance of escapement. Even the very small percentage that did escape would never spawn. Now there are lots of escapees. There are even esablished Atlantic runs up our Rivers. The government tells us that the runs are a bad thing that they are trying to stop.
Then they make you add any Atlantic's caught to your limit.
If they want the runs to die off shouldn't they let us catch as many Atlantic's as we want? The same goes for having a limit on yellow perch in a lake nearby here that they want to rid of Yellow perch. They put a limit on the perch. dumb dumb dumb.
The only good thing about the Atlantic's is that river spawned fish from the 2nd generation will not be farmed fish and probably taste better and look their proper color.
In the regs they have several pages devoted to the evil bucket brigade when their own policies regarding fish farming basically amounts to the same thing.
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