Culture of Bluegill and Crappie for Food Fish #1

Duration:
-

(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)/InstitutionObjectivesFunding
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

Award Amount

$130758.00

Award Number

90-38500-5008