Water quality problems at the Norfork hatchery

[jdmidwest]

8 hours ago, tjm said:

In my mind all modern trout are artificial. In the few places where indigenous trout remain, I think most species have been contaminated by stocking of other species or subspecies. Hard to justify protecting a fish that exists only to be stocked for recreational use. 

If my memory serves, there were no native trout east of the Mississippi, only the two chars; brook trout and lake trout. Rainbow Trout and  the char Dolly Varden were native only to the streams draining directly into the Pacific. The Great Basin and the Rockies had only Cutthroat trout and and the char  Bull Trout. Browns were strictly European. As were the common carp that were imported at the same time. 

I was going to refresh my memory but apparently the USGS no longer has a website. 

I was going to refresh my memory but apparently the USGS no longer has a website.   That was whacked by DOGE cuts...

Trout were native to many areas historically, but Global Warming since the last Ice Age made the areas we know them what they are today.  They were natural on the west coast and the east coasts.  The original Mc Cloud strain stocked in MO came from California by train.