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Old 05-05-2011, 08:06 PM
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Salmon were stocked in the Raritan River in 1988

NEW JERSEY'S stocking steelhead trout and chinook salmon in the Raritan River has infuriated the Hudson River Fishermen's Association. John Cronin, the association's riverkeeper, said that the unheralded introduction of what he called exotic species to the Hudson estuary was thoughtless and may harm indigenous species, including the striped bass and shad, that use the estuary in all or portions of their life cycles. Both the chinook, or king, salmon and the steelhead (a migratory strain of rainbow trout)
May 1, 1988
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