Funded Project #4 - Culture Technology of Sunfish


(funded project 4)

Description

The fourth Sunfish Funded Project.   Chaired by Bob Sheehan

Objectives:

  1. Compare feeding trials for grow out of locally available 5.1-10.2 cm (2-4") black crappie and bluegill male x green sunfish female hybrids:

    a.  in ponds at dissimilar latitudes in the region, and
    b.  in recirculating systems using compensatory feeding strategies
  2. Establish baseline physiological measures for small 2.5-7.6 cm (1-3") black crappie subjected to handling stressors and to test the effect of salt and temperature on stress reduction.
  3. Update the sunfish culture manual that had been developed for sunfish produced in the North Central Region.

Participants:

Principal Investigator(s)/Institution Objectives

Funding
Paul B. Brown (Purdue University)      1a

$19,000
Robert J. Sheehan (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)      1a

$38,000
Robert S. Hayward/Douglas B. Noltie (University of Missouri)      1b

$49,000
James R. Triplett (Pittsburg State, Kansas)      1b

$24,000
Fred P. Binkowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison)      1b

$20,000
Joseph E. Morris (Iowa State University)    1b & 3

$35,000
Bruce A. Barton (University of South Dakota)       2

$8,500
Jeffrey A. Malison (University of Wisconsin-Madison)       2

$6,500

Total

$200,000


Project Outline (270K pdf file)

Report (Termination for all objectives)





Project Number: 4
Duration: 9/1/96 - 8/31/00
Funding Level: $199,921
Grant Number: 96-38500-2631