Journal
EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS
Volume 5, Issue 7, Pages 705-719Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00247.x
Keywords
admixture; artificial propagation; assignment test; hatchery management; hybridization; microsatellite DNA; Oncorhynchus mykiss
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- Weyerhaeuser Foundation
- H. Mason Keeler Endowment to the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington
- Bonneville Power Administration [2003-00-050]
- National Science Foundation [DEB-9903914]
- Hatchery Science Review Group in Washington State
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Two strategies have been proposed to avoid negative genetic effects of artificially propagated individuals on wild populations: (i) integration of wild and captive populations to minimize domestication selection and (ii) segregation of released individuals from the wild population to minimize interbreeding. We tested the efficacy of the strategy of segregation by divergent life history in a steelhead trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, system, where hatchery fish were selected to spawn months earlier than the indigenous wild population. The proportion of wild ancestry smolts and adults declined by 1020% over the three generations since the hatchery program began. Up to 80% of the naturally produced steelhead in any given year were hatchery/wild hybrids. Regression model selection analysis showed that the proportion of hatchery ancestry smolts was lower in years when stream discharge was high, suggesting a negative effect of flow on reproductive success of early-spawning hatchery fish. Furthermore, proportions of hybrid smolts and adults were higher in years when the number of naturally spawning hatchery-produced adults was higher. Divergent life history failed to prevent interbreeding when physical isolation was ineffective, an inadequacy that is likely to prevail in many other situations.
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