History, Collaborations, and Challenges of the Idaho Trout Industry

Randy MacMillan, Ph.D.Clear Springs Foods, Inc.Buhl, Idaho 83316

“A Treatise on the Artificial Propagation of Certain Kinds of Fish, with the Description and Habit of Such Kinds as Are the Most Suitable for Pisciculture.” 1857

Dr. Theodatus Garlick

1848

Presenter

Presentation Notes

World-wide philosophy and movement. Man should control where animals lived and their kind. Brought in fish such as brown trout but also various birds such as the starling, house sparrow and blackbird. Spread fish such as rainbow trout.

Photoperiod Manipulation

Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA)

Thousand Springs

Feeding

“Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting”

- Mark Twain

Middle Snake River

• Water quality limited• Total maximum daily load (TMDL)• Assimilative capacity

Lessons Learned

• The heart of our success has been continual innovation and collaboration.

• Change is inevitable. We must recognize it early and respond early.– Advantage– Mitigate