About 7-8 years ago, I regularly visited a pond related forum sponsored by the Mississippi Extension Service monitored by several marine biologists including Dr. Neal occasionally. I was party to a conversation about outbreeding depression with Dr. Neal and others which was later brought to this forum by Burgermeister in the link provided by Eric. I continued the conversation with Dr. Neal via email for several months after the thread ended on the Miss. forum but was raging on Pond Boss.
In short, he had two main thoughts:
1) that food and environment are much more important factors to LMB growth than genetics.
2) It would be helpful to refresh the gene pool occasionally. He suggested that I add a few pure Fla. LMB then add a few pure Northern LMB a few years later and continue this practice into the future. I did add the Floridas but haven't added the northerns yet.
1 ac pond LMB, BG, RES, CC
