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Development of Yellow Perch Broodstocks for Selective Breeding
The recent decline of the yellow perch fishery in Lake Michigan and a corresponding loss of its commercial fishery have led to a shift toward aquaculture to replace this lost food resource, yet many unknowns add risk to developing a viable yellow perch aquaculture business. One is the need for a dependable supply of broodstocks with the ability to produce offspring at multiple times during the year. The investigators of this continuing project propose to evaluate broodstocks from wild perch derived from several geographic regions in the United States and determine genetic variation and phylogenetic relatedness of perch and their crossbreed offspring using DNA microsatellite markers. This project is testing the viability of this genetic marker approach for developing aquaculture broodstock capable of out-of-season spawning.
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