Re: NANFA-- Calif. Fish May Get Endangered Tag

Wally Billingham (wally_at_wallybillingham.com)
Sat, 21 Sep 2002 20:12:18 -0400

Oh I stand corrected, around here these are the ones called golden trout.

Wally
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay DeLong <thirdwind_at_att.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: RE: NANFA-- Calif. Fish May Get Endangered Tag

> > This is interesting, why do they want to list them as being endangered?
> > According to the book "Pennsylvania Fishes" published by the PA Fish and
> > Boat Commission all of them came from a "single female trout with
> > a genetic
> > mutation that gave her a mixed golden and normal rainbow trout
coloration.
> > She was found in the West Virginia hatchery system in 1954."
> <snip>
> > Its funny thats EXACTLY where these trout came from. The are hybrid
> > non-native trout produced in a hatchery. If they want them in
> > California why not just farm them like PA does?
>
> Not the same fish, Wally. You're talking about that yellow freak rainbow.
> The golden trout is not a rainbow and is native to streams in the Sierra
> Nevada Mtns in California.
>
> --
> Jay DeLong
> Olympia, WA

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