Research Shows Snake River Sockeye Broodstock Program Preserving Population’s Genetic Diversity

A recently published scientific research paper says the ongoing broodstock mixing system, which started with just a handful of fish, has managed quite well to preserve the genetic diversity of a Snake River sockeye salmon population that teetered on the brink of extinction in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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