If you want to know the need or market for fingerling or yearling SMB then just try to find some for sale in the spring; very, very difficult to find them at that time of year. There is a good market for them, although consistantly producing reliable numbers of them is also difficult which explains my first sentence. Numerous hatcheries have tried and failed to capitalize on this market. Hatcheires that produce some fingerling SMB almost always sell out in fall fish sales. Overwintering the limited number of fingerlings that they produce is probably not worth the financial risk and effort.

Last edited by Bill Cody; 12/15/17 09:01 PM.

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