Raised in a bubble with the press of humanity alert to your every move, tight security and handlers catering to your every need, with researchers and reporters combing through your trash -you’re certain to have reproductive problems.
Androgyny is the least of your worries, what with caretakers ensuring you’re fed and clothed, associations groomed to the privileged few of similar means, thrust together in some artificial world the rest of us only read about. Why wouldn’t the entire boy-girl thing gets skewed- where little boys look cute and girls are asexual … free drugs from a licensed physician, and never have to drive yourself anywhere …
I want to be a hatchery fish too …
Under those circumstances I’m surprised the scientists at Oregon State University were surprised that hatchery fish have trouble breeding – and more importantly so do their offspring.
Fishery managers have suggested boosting the last vestiges of wild-spawning native salmon runs by crossbreeding them with relatively abundant hatchery fish.
Doing so may cause more harm than good, according to the OSU researchers.
As I’ve been keeping score their current management scenario is as follows: They’re shooting sea lion’s that eat the returning hatchery fish as there ain’t enough of them to feed us and the sea lions, but the fish they’re protecting are intermingling with the last few native fish, which undermines the reproduction of both, so:
“We have to go to greater lengths to (enhance) our ability to remove and harvest hatchery fish,” he said. “Those that aren’t harvested ought to be captured.”
… we’re going to kill all of the hatchery fish as they’re now the enemy.
It’s clear to me, kill %$#& everything, pave it, then blame our parents for the wanton despoiling of our precious fishery.
…. and that World War II thing, that was lame too …
I agree that so-called management strategies have been nothing short of hair brained so far. They seem to rely on nothing but killing everything around us, in the hope that we can mitigate some of the damage we cause in the world by… by causing more damage. In other words, since we want to kill so many fish without restraint, we think we can accomplish this without dooming the fish, by killing off natural predators. Poppycock.
We need a new paradigm. We can’t rely on those whose budget requires the sale of fishing licenses to have the best interests of the fish in mind when they set management priorities.