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North American Journal of Fisheries Managemen
6t: 156-167, 1986
¸ Copyright by the American Fisheries Society 1986

Evaluation of Male Bluegill X Female Green Sunfish Hybrids for
Stocking Mississippi Farm Ponds 1

MARTIN W. BRUNSON
Rice Research Station, Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
Post Office Box 1429, Crowley, Louisiana 70527, USA
H. RANDALL ROBINETTE
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762, USA

quote below :

Largemouth bass effectiveness in controlling F2 hybrid recruitment was evidenced by the following: in the three drained ponds
containing largemouth bass (two bass/feed, one
bass/no-feed), the mean number of F2 hybrids per
hectare was 35; in the three drained ponds without largemouth bass (two no-bass/feed, one no-bass/no-feed), the mean number of F2 hybrids per hectare was 2,142. Other studies (Childers and Bennett 1967; Ellison and Heidinger 1978; Schaffer 1979)also have shown largemouth bass to be effectivein the control of F2 individuals in largemouth bass hybrid sunfish populations.