Thanks for all that information Snipe and very very happy your body is turning the corner and picking up steam too!

Wow, that hybrid sounds like a real winner and a wonderful discovery that can help thousands of pondowners. Most all small lakes around here are very eutrophic. They have too much runoff, too many weeds, too many skinny bass and bug-eyed bluegill and there is no way it will ever get back in balance. No one wants to catch and filet the tiny bluegill and we aren't allowed to cull the skinny bass. To make it worse they moved the legal LMB size from 12" to 14" They should have moved it down to 10"!!

But this type of warm water tolerant fish that targets the skinny bluegill and stunted crappie sounds fantastic.

Will it be a struggle to get other states to 'trust' this GMO fish? We still have hysteric paranoia in MI over tilapia and hybrid stripers, I'm wondering how long it will take each state to warm up to the idea of allowing SAE in public lakes and then what the struggle might be to allow private pond owners to pay an out of state fish truck to bring some in and stock them.

Are the young SAE hardy enough to put in a box and ship to another state for their reservoirs or stocking programs?