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Title: Producing Hybrid Catfish Fry: Workshop Manual

Author
item Bosworth, Brian
item Small, Brian
item STEEBY, JAMES - Mississippi Agricultural And Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES)
item AVERY, JIMMY - Mississippi Agricultural And Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES)

Submitted to: Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Technical Bulletin
Publication Type: Experiment Station
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/19/2005
Publication Date: 5/25/2005
Citation: Avery, J., Steeby, J., Bosworth, B.G., Small, B.C. 2005. Producing Hybrid Catfish Fry: Workshop Manual. Mississippi State University, Delta Branch Experiment Station, Stoneville, MS. http://www.msstate.edu/dept/tcnwac/HybridManual05.pdf. p. 115.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: A manual titled ‘Producing Hybrid Catfish Fry: Workshop Manual’ was produced and distributed to participants in a workshop with the same title that was given May 25, 2005. The manual was produced in cooperation with the Mississippi State Extension Service and is available on-line at Mississippi State’s website: http://www.msstate.edu/dept/tcnwac/HybridManual05.pdf. The workshop manual covers basic information related to the hormone induced spawning of channel catfish, obtaining and preparing blue catfish sperm, fertilizing channel catfish eggs with blue catfish sperm to produce hybrids, and treatment of hybrid embryos prior to hatch.