Advancement of Hybrid Walleye Aquaculture


(funded project 7)

Description

The seventh Walleye Funded Project.  Chaired by Konrad Dabrowski

Objectives:

1a. Carry out commercial-scale field trials for rearing hybrid walleye fingerlings to food size (25.4 cm; 10 in minimum) in tanks.


1b. Carry out commercial-scale field trials for rearing hybrid walleye fingerlings to food size (25.4 cm; 10 in minimum) in ponds (at least three ponds at each site) at sites in the upper and lower portions of the North Central Region.


2. Conduct producer training workshops on propagation of hybrid walleye.

Participants:

Principal Investigator/Institution Objectives

Funding

Konrad Dabrowski (Ohio State University)  1a & 1b

$29,000

David A. Smith (Freshwater Farms of Ohio)       1a

$19,000

Robert S. Hayward (University of Missouri-Columbia)       1b

$24,000

Jeffrey A. Malison (University of Wisconsin-Madison)       1b

$49,000

Ronald E. Kinnunen (Michigan State University)       2

$6,000

Total

$127,000



Project Outline (329K pdf file)

Report (158K pdf file)





Project Number: 7
Duration: 9/1/99 - 5/31/03
Funding Level: $127,000
Grant Number: 98-38500-5863