One of the big problems with using pellet trained RES is their recruitment does not or rarely eats pellets. Thus when the original stockers die out a big majority of remaining population are not pellet eaters unless you do annual supplemental stocking of pellet trained RES. The same problem occurs but to a lesser degree with yellow perch depending on history of domestication of brood stock.


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