RES Fecundity/survival rate? - 02/02/10 03:48 AM
I was asked this question, and couldn't answer it.
"If 100 RES 4"-6" are stocked in a 1 ac pond this Spring with no predators in it, and they spawn, how many will make it to next year?" It seems that a RES 6" long will have somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 ova (according to Arkansas Academy of Science Proceedings, Vol. XXXIII,1979).
What say you experts? The pond is new as of 2009, some FHM and GSH will be stocked at the same time.
"If 100 RES 4"-6" are stocked in a 1 ac pond this Spring with no predators in it, and they spawn, how many will make it to next year?" It seems that a RES 6" long will have somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 ova (according to Arkansas Academy of Science Proceedings, Vol. XXXIII,1979).
What say you experts? The pond is new as of 2009, some FHM and GSH will be stocked at the same time.