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I have posted this question before and Bob Lusk answered it by saying that there was no market for them. Yet it seems to me almost all of the small pond owners problems with managing a big bass pond could be solved by put and take stocking of bass. Are triploids hard to produce?
Could you just stock one sex? Or are bass hermaphoditic like groupers and a lot of other species? I just cannot see why sterile bass are not the solution to 80% of all the problems posted on this board.


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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.


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