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Originally Posted by goldscud
Genetics will (probably has already) get worked out here as well. I don't think we need new genes thrown in the local populations
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If a stream has already been subject to stocking in the past, then there are no pure genes from a local population anyway.
In any event, trying to preserve a gene pool that is dying out because of whirling disease by not stocking means that eventually, there are no fish in the gene pool.
Introducing resistant genes that mix with the local gene pool means that some offspring may immediately be resistant.
Drewski