Funded Project #1 - Culture of Bluegill and Crappie for Food Fish


(Sunfish Funded Project 1)

Description

The first Sunfish Funded Project.  Chaired by Bruce Tetzlaff

Objectives:

  1. To determine the mechanisms of sex control in sunfish and to produce and evaluate polyploid sunfish and hybrids.
  2. To compare the optimum temperature-food conversion relationship of selected hybrids with those of the parentals, and to determine optimum stocking densities of hybrid sunfish.

Participants:

Principal Investigator(s)/Institution Objectives

Funding

Donald L. Garling (Michigan State)       1

$17,000

James E. & Lisa W. Seeb (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)       1

$57,172

Bruce L. Tetzlaff/Robert J. Sheehan (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)       2

$56,586

Total

$130,758


Project Outline (173K pdf file)

Report (Termination for Objective 1) (42K pdf file)

Report (Termination for Objective 2) (44K pdf file)





Project Number: 1
Duration: 6/1/90 - 3/31/93
Funding Level: $130,758
Grant Number: 90-38500-5008