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Effective size of a wild salmonid population is greatly reduced by hatchery supplementation.
Heredity - 1 Oct 2012
Christie M R, Marine M L, French R A, Waples R S, Blouin M S
Abstract excerpt
Many declining and commercially important populations are supplemented with captive-born individuals that are intentionally released into the wild. These supplementation programs often create large numbers of offspring from relatively few breeding adults, which can have substantial population-level effects. We examined the genetic effects of supplementation on a wild population of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss)...
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