Thread: UAPB ?

Part of the fish agriculture program. They do fish samples this time of year especially with crappie.

Greyson Farris is a graduate student from UAPB and his Masters thesis is looking at stocking contribution of crappie to the existing crappie population. We helped him OTC mark crappie and stock them is several lakes around the state the past 2 years. Now he is trying to determine what percent of the crappie that he catches in the Nets are wild born or stocked. This will help us figure out of stocking crappie in some lakes is a waste of time or notm

Originally Posted by D10

Greyson Farris is a graduate student from UAPB and his Masters thesis is looking at stocking contribution of crappie to the existing crappie population. We helped him OTC mark crappie and stock them is several lakes around the state the past 2 years. Now he is trying to determine what percent of the crappie that he catches in the Nets are wild born or stocked. This will help us figure out of stocking crappie in some lakes is a waste of time or notm

Thanks Matt! I'd like the results of his testing. Lake Beaverfork seems to be over populated with small crappie.

You bet. I am anxious awaiting the results myself. My personal feeling is that most crappie populations would be fine with no stocking. This study should give us some answers.

Originally Posted by D10

You bet. I am anxious awaiting the results myself. My personal feeling is that most crappie populations would be fine with no stocking. This study should give us some answers.

Dardanelle is on a down cycle a few stocked could not hurt .

Research conducted in other states found that crappie populations are at their best when they only have a strong year class (excellent spawn) once every three to four years. Frank Leone (biologist who manages Big D) says that their was a good spawn in 2015. My bet is that in a few years, it will be great again. Stocking in systems like this may not be needed to maximize the crappie population. Hopefully we will get this answered.

I agree with you Matt. Lets not try and fix what's not broken. If you can please post the results of his study. Thanks.

Originally Posted by blackfish

I agree with you Matt. Lets not try and fix what's not broken. If you can please post the results of his study. Thanks.

Will do. He is finishing up his research now and should be compiling the data and writing his thesis over the summer. I will let yall know what he found out.