Guys,
When someone calls me, looking for crappie, it's not for anther sportfish. Most want them for meat. A handful of people want them for diversity. But rarely are they a target fish. After a short discussion about how crappie behave, feed and spawn, most people choose another fish. Since private hatcheries are market driven, there hasn't been much of a motive for many hatcheries to work with crappie. And, it's a rare private fish hatchery who does much research and development. They believe that should be reserved for universities. But, over the last six or seven years, there has been some capitalistic rumblings about triploidy and crappie. So, it may be time for one of those hatcheries to figure it out. It's still something of a catch-22. Unpredictability of crappie while working with other predictable species of fish takes special effort from hatchery personnel. They need a spark. That spark comes from a market.

Teach a man to grow fish...
He can teach to catch fish...