Hmmmmmm.......

This is fishy:

WASHINGTON - Papa salmon plus mama salmon equals ... baby trout? Japanese researchers put a new spin on surrogate parenting as they engineered one fish species to produce another, in a quest to preserve endangered fish. Idaho scientists begin the next big step next month, trying to produce a type of salmon highly endangered in that state — the sockeye — this time using more plentiful trout as surrogate parents.

Dad and I used to go fishing for rainbows in Katmai Park in Alaska. We'd go during the height of the sockeye run when the Brooks River was literally jammed with spawning salmon. The rainbows were perfectly willing to gobble up any loose salmon egg they spotted, and indeed preferred a wet fly made out of a ball of hot-pink velour to any traditional dry fly. (Being a dry fly snob, I would catch very few, instead mostly bagging Arctic grayling.)

Did the scientists factor this possibility into their stocking plans, I wonder? I'm getting a whole Greek-tragedy unknowing cannibalism vibe out of all this.