I just cannot see why sterile bass are not the solution to 80% of all the problems posted on this board.
I think the HSB Fan Club just made you their Poster Pondmeister.
IMHO there already a lot of predators available which do not (readily) reproduce in ponds - the aforementioned Wipers, Walleye, Channel/Blue/Flathead Catfish, Northern Pike; I bet I missed some. While each of these may have advantages and disadvantages versus LMB, they provide a lot of "sterile" alternatives that probably cut most of the sales potential out from under triploid LMB by being more readily/cheaply available. My guess is that if there were no other non-pond reproducing predators around, sterile LMB might have already taken off as commercially viable.
I did not know Groupers went both ways; LMB do not.