Abstract
Abstract We evaluated prerelease acclimation of hatchery winter steelhead Oncorhynchus mykiss in Whittaker Creek, a tributary of the Siuslaw River, Oregon, as a management strategy to attract returning adults to a release site where they could be removed. The objective was to reduce the number of hatchery fish in wild steelhead spawning areas while providing hatchery steelhead for recreational fisheries. We found no significant difference in homing rate or survival between hatchery steelhead acclimated for 30 d and those trucked from the hatchery and directly released. For the 1991–1993 broods, a mean of 92% of directly released fish and 97% of acclimated fish were accounted for in Whittaker Creek. In contrast, 15% of adults from hatchery smolts released at four traditional sites in the main-stem Siuslaw River were accounted for in Whittaker Creek. The spatial distribution of the catch in recreational fisheries was similar for the direct and acclimated groups; that catch, however, was nearer Whittaker Cre...
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