Research Objectives
- Identify methods to train wild fish collected from the Delaware River/Chesapeake
Bay onto commercial diets to assist in developing a captive population
- Conduct studies to advance hatchery technology
- Evaluate larval and juvenile nutrition and feeding strategies
- Demonstrate sex determination technology
- Evaluate pre-release conditioning techniques
- Evaluate bio-indicator potential and tagging technology
- Build on cryopreservation technology
- Continue development of broodstock management plan
- Develop habitat assessment techniques to identify target tributaries
- Investigate need for streamside culture facilities to insure imprinting
- Investigate DNA markers to ID hatchery fish
- Conduct test releases and evaluate performance of released fish
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