.... Related to the topic of inbreeding and outbreeding, when stocking a new pond particularly a large one where thousands of one fish would be stocked or at least several hundred... Would it be a good idea to source those fish from several or at least a couple different sources so as to help guarantee genetic variance amoungst the fish in your pond? At what time down the road should you add new genetics to your bass, BG, etc... 5 years, 10 years?
If stocking in the thousands I would source from different genetics. One hatchery could do this but you should be sure they understand and then ask them to explain what exactly they are going to do. On pond 3 I got CNBG and RES and FH and TShad from 2 sources Todd and SEP and LMB from 3 sources Greg , ASF , and Todd. The BG from Todd were from 2 sources his and George.
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