I have volunteered at a salmon hatchery for a couple of months and plan to be a fisheries technician, so right now I don't know a whole lot. Those sea pens to farm fish in are really great at creating polluted dead-zones! The sad part is that the hatchery I was at on a creek was producing a lot more waste than what would occur naturally also, but not to the extent that the fish farms in question produced.

Here in Oregon the Bonneville dam gives lots of clean electricity, but the price is paid by the fish and a slower flowing Columbia. I like fishing, but my motivation for wanting to work at a hatchery is to take care and preserve what we have left.

Any Biologists/ Ecologists out there? I guess I am asking for some much needed advice before I start fisheries classes at college! Should I consider a different natural resources career? Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated, and of course I am not looking to get rich, but rather have a job that I enjoy, one with meaning.

Thanks for your patience