Eric, Thank you for sending that article. I am going to read today.

Frank, In the case of LMB which strain has the advantage? Is it the Florida or Northern?.

Bill, Thanks. Esox are species I have little knowledge of other than fishing for them on a vacation in Minnesota. They grow so large that they remind me more of a FHC than an LMB. Much of the FCR work I have seen has been done with small fish. Prather was able to select more efficient individuals to achieve 3-4 to 1 in LMB but he was working with less than 2 oz LMB and in aquaria to boot. Prey doesn't stand a chance in aquariums because the walls limit escape space and make the encounters an perpetual experience until capture. So the energy expended would seem minimal under these conditions.

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