Culture of Bluegill and Crappie for Food Fish #2

Duration:
-

(funded project 2)

Description

The second Sunfish Funded Project.   Chaired by Bob Sheehan

Objectives:

  1. Production and evaluation of polyploid sunfish.
  2. Determinations of optimum stocking densities and relationships between temperature and growth for sunfish, sunfish hybrids, and triploid sunfish.
  3. Development of low cost, high performance sunfish diets.

Participants:

Principal Investigator(s)/InstitutionObjectivesFunding
Donald L. Garling (Michigan State University)      1$33,987
David H. Wahl/Michael L. Hooe (Illinois Natural History Survey)      2$11,000
James R. Triplett (Pittsburg State, Kansas)      2$29,000
Robert J. Sheehan/Bruce L. Tetzlaff (Southern Illinois University - Carbondale)      2$55,380
Paul B. Brown (Purdue University)      3$20,432
 Total$149,799

Project Outline (210K pdf file)

Report (Termination for Objectives 1 & 2) (42K pdf file)

Report (Termination for Objective 3) (56K pdf file)

Project Number: 2

Award Amount

$149799.00

Award Number

92-38500-6916