Don,

If you get some LMB keep us apprised of their growth rate and maximum size. Seems to me if they have the right forage water temps should be optimum there for maximum growth. It would also be interesting to know if the bass strain there is a Florida bass (actually considered a separate species now by the AFS).

As someone that is involved in Aquaculture with lots of contacts you are defintely correct in the demand by Asians for LMB. There are growers now growing them out just for that market. Ironically feed trained individuals grow very rapidly until sexual maturity and they grow faster than yellow perch and bluegill. Some food fish growers now are switching over to LMB.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.