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Wild salmon vs. hatcheries

Salmon hatcheries are killing wild salmon in a scientifically undetectable manner.

It has to do with the way hatcheries overfeed predators of migrating salmon. Wild salmon migrate on the dark moon of the spring equinox--trying to make it through the predators in the dark of night.

Hatchery salmon juveniles have lost the sense of wild; they are pond fed to a size ten times larger than wild fry.. Squawfidh, now a huge minnow in the pike or Cyprinidae family have become so overpopulated the fishery community sponsors squawfish derbies along the rivers to get rid of them.

Although the hatcheries claim to be successful, they are exterminating wild fry, and do not even take inventory of the wild fish until they become endangered. It is then too late. Scientists have invented Frankenfish altering the fish to a GMO, as shown on recent Dr. Oz show.

Who will speak for wild fish? Dr. Oz did not. The state has the authority and responsibility to preserve salmon--but they are running the hatcheries, Mr. Government even bribed the Tribes with jobs and new income. The fox runs the chicken house. Oh. My!.

This story was originally published June 18, 2016 at 8:26 AM with the headline "Wild salmon vs. hatcheries."

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