| Common name: |
Smallmouth bass
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| Scientific name: |
Micropterus dolomieui
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| Production potential: |
Easy for fingerlings. Difficult for
food size. |
| Marketing potential: |
Potential: Easy
Size: 4-6 inches for fingerlings, 1.5-3.0 pounds for food size.
Market: Sport
|
| Temperature Requirements: |
Growing: 50-70oF
Spawning: 58-62oF
Lethal: upper lethal tempertures of 95oF have been reportedNA
|
| Feed requirements: |
Protein: 45%
Fat: 8%
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| Spawning requirements: |
Nest layer, 8,000 eggs/lb. body
weight. Males guard nests until eggs hatch. |
Most common
production systems: |
Ponds |
