This is a report evaluating the current condition of the salmon hatchery system in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Please use our abstract below to navigate through this site. Click here for a description of this assignment.
Hatcheries are fish-breeding and raising centers located at or near rivers and streams.
They are used to help remedy the effects that heavy fishing can have on certain populations of fish within specific areas. Click here for an explanation of why hatcheries where first conceived and how they benefit both people and aquatic ecosystems today. Although different salmon hatcheries vary in their practices of catching, breeding, and raising the fish, they all have in common a refined process by which salmon are produced. That is explained briefly here . Successful operation of hatcheries requires an understanding of the functions of genetics, both in individual salmon and throughout whole stocks of them.