Really Bad Chemicals To Treat Trout

[lovetofish]

Does anyone know how they treat the trout when they get parisites. My understanding is that they use really hard chemicals, hence the big gray box outside the hatchery that has a toxic sign on it. I understand since that MO water is really not fit for trout they get a lot of sickness that the MDC treats with chemicals that are really not good for us but keeps the fish alive to make money???

[Chief Grey Bear]

Explain to me all the wild trout then?

[jdmidwest]

Explain to me all the wild trout then?

Wild trout are not shoved into a concrete run packed like sardines, only fed a few times a day, eat each others fins and poop, stressed by all of this, and have a trout next to them get sick. Once one gets it, it spreads pretty quick.

Wild trout get sick, usually by introduction of disease from hatchery trout.

[Outside Bend]

MDC does use antibiotics on trout. MDC uses antibiotics on all their stocked fish. It's not so much related to trout's fitness as it is their cramped growing conditions, as others have alluded to, similar to the way other livestock is grown.

In the concentrations they are used, there's little danger to humans. Now if you were to eat all the contents of that gray box, you'd probably have a bad day. But there's really no other way to efficiently produce the volume of trout MDC needs annually to satisfy anglers.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I'm sure the sign on the box is in reference to the concentration of chemicals in the box. You would also have to know at what stage in their growth they use chemicals, if they use them. It would probably make more sense that they were used in the egg or fry stage, when they are in captive waters. I have no idea however, but you could ask the hatchery.

[ozark trout fisher]

I've eaten plenty of trout park fish and have yet to die. We'll see though.

Wild trout are poisonous though-don't ever eat one.

[Gavin]

They mass produce the little buggers...And disease would spread quickly if they didnt take some preventive measures.....The same can be said about most of the beef, chicken, & pork that you pick up at the market...Its not something you can control unless you want to grow your own so I dont worry about it. Cheers.

[Outside Bend]

And you'd probably get sick of eating trout before you ate enough hatchery fish for the antifungal and antibiotic medications to really effect you.

Now if they were flouridating the fish, I'd be concerned.

[Danoinark]

Now if they were flouridating the fish, I'd be concerned.

[fishinwrench]

Hell that's nothin' they used to inject HGH in some of the broodstock. I think flysmallie filleted one of those when he was a kid