North Central Regional Aquaculture Center

Feed Training Carnivorous Fish

A project on feed training carnivorus fish was initiated in September 2006.  This project is chaired by Anita Kelly, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

The objectives of this project are:

1. Evaluate strategies including harvest, transport, environmental, and husbandry, to increase survival, growth, to maximize the percent of advanced yellow perch fingerlings trained to accept formulated feeds

2. Evaluate strategies including harvest, transport, environmental, and husbandry, to increase survival, growth, to maximize the percent of advanced yellow perch fingerlings and largemouth bass fingerlings retained on formulated feeds after restocking into commercial-scale culture systems.

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