Lake Oliphant - Stocking Request

40 acre lake with very little watershed

Largemouth bass / bream mix

Goal: Create a “trophy” bass fishery

Proposal: Stock all female largemouth bass

Rationale:

Faster growth

No reproduction (unisex population)

no “bass crowding”

Same fish density per acre but the fish are larger(trophy)

Homework: Propose an alternate plan thataccomplishes the same goal but use one of the genetic methodsdescribed in class. Write a short essay that outlines thepositives and negatives of your method in the context of theinformation learned in class.