I know I shouldn’t look, but I did.
There are thousands of highly trained scientists examining the diet and feeding habits of both salmon and trout. The Bad News is they’re doing so to determine whether they can be raised on Plutonium pellets, concrete, animal waste, or anything else we don’t want…
An admirable task that – but only once through the digestive tract shouldn’t be enough to diffuse weapons-grade anything.
As an interested bystander, browsing the findings of countless dietary studies on Salmonids, a couple of interesting points become clear immediately.
As the fish will be harvested at a given weight – rather than grown to full maturity, long term affects to the “crop” will be ignored.
Soybean meal has been has been used to partially replace fish meal in the diets of several fish but it is known to cause enteritis in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar
Nice to know that in addition to being spray painted with orange dye , your fillet had the runs …
Don’t despair. There’s enough fly fishing scientists working clandestinely to improve all the trout fishing of the future. It’s the Perfect Crime, with the aquaculture industry an unwitting accomplice in building the first trout that likes artificial flies better than natural insects…
Woot. Got your attention now, did I?
Fed feathers from infancy. No more pellets (which are hard to tie and float so poorly), instead our graceful trout of the future will have deeply rooted unnatural cravings for chicken feathers – and since aquaculturists are such tight wads, the secret color should be white.
I’m tying 2/0 White Millers by the bushel.
Tags: Feather Meal, blood meal, chicken feathers, farmed trout, Plutonium, pen raised, salmon, soy-induced enteritis, artificial flies, fly fishing humor
Uh oh… would that make a hackled Dry fly considered “Bait” on hatchery-reared trout?
Yep – now the “purist” of the future will only fish No-Hackle-Dry flies (upstream of course)
As if the industrial food industry isn’t already doing enough to kill us off with poisonous CAFO’s (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) they now want to do the same with fish….. Matching the hatch is already hard enough.
Where’s the rejoicing? We’ll be back to the massive stringers and huge fish kills of our forefathers …
… and the Bivisible makes a triumphant return to prominence.
I agree. The fish just might prefer imitation food in the future. They’re biting now!
Thanks for sharing.