Show Enthusiastic Apathy Greets Albinos Albino rainbow trout are being met with apathy and friendly says Ron fish pathologist and nutritionist for the Division of Wildlife Resources Logan Experimental THE Division's major proponent of the brought it to Utah in 1967 for experimental He initially obtained the fish from Ennis National Fish Hatchery in The albinos are ideal for investigations of clinical pathology because they have reduced genetic variability and have no pigments masking any tissue alterations that may the albino rainbow are not These mutants with double recessive genes are found on about the same ratio as albinos are found among human The difference is that the hatchery is dealing with several million which allows them to turn up at a faster rate than they do among IN GOEDE'S clinical pathology a disease is induced in the albinos to study the course and effects of the During these it has been found that the albinos are much more disease resistant than other Goede also found that in the hatchery the albino rainbow grow faster and are more aggressive than standard After learning the desirable characteristics of the the Division's fishery staff began considering their potential in Utah's fisheries management FROM THE station's original brood large were provided for plants of to fish each in Porcupine and Easy Canyon Angler's reaction was They began calling to are those white They can be seen ten to twelve feet deep in the in 1970 and albino fingerling were planted in and East Canyon THESE plants were because the small light colored fish were extremely vulnerable to This experience led to a decision to plant only catch-ables in the future because the bigger and stronger fish are more apt to avoid their Goede expects 80 percent of the albinos planted will return to the creel in a short SOME management use possibilities must still be the albinos act or respond similarly to the standard rainbow in the they can be used as a number much as use black since they are so easy to fisheries biologists can check to sec whether they wash over said The division shipped albino eggs to Iowa so that state could eliminate reports from anglers that there were no The easily seen albinos will force fishermen there to admit that there are fish and that cither their fishing ability or luck is IF THE albinos with fishermen in they can be used to shift pressure from over-visited waters to other Albinos this year have been planted in Deer Creek Weber and Logan rivers and the North Fork of the on opening reported the albinos were scrappy fighters on the And several were heard to a good looking |