I will check around for sterile WAE just out of curiosity.
To my knowledge, this is a small scale experiment.
When you split the chromosome into 3 after fertilization with 2800-3000psi, you cut the percentage of hatch in half.
Best case would be 25% of eggs fertilized-best case.
This is going to be a state or federal hatchery only deal.
I did a little digging on this and what they are doing is genetically modifying females to be sterile-Trojan males if you will.
The problem with this is they are removing "X" fish and replacing with "X" fish. They still have to eat, they still can breach the system and if managed in the most common forms we use, they are restocking whether the fish is harvested or the fish breached and is now in another BOW.
They (Milford percid techs) tell me it costs more to genetically modify than to stock in any other form.
It would make sense to me-with this information-to stock male only WAE at the 11-12" size if someone decided to try it.
Seldom does a male ever exceed 3lbs, 17-19" so you'd know what size forage they would/could consume.
