SRAC# 301, Hybrid Striped Bass: Hatchery Phase

SRAC# 301

Hybrid Striped Bass: Hatchery Phase

Ronald G. Hodson and Maureen Hayes

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Hybridization within the genus Morone was made possible by the development of methods to use hormones to induce final maturation and ovulation of striped bass (Morone saxatilis). This research was being done in the early 1960s, and by 1965 the “original” cross of striped bass female x white bass male (M. chrysops) was made in South Carolina. Since that time all Morone species have been hybridized with striped bass, but none has gained the acceptance of the striped bass x white bass cross. More recently it was found that a white bass female x striped bass male exhibited the same characteristics as the “original” cross. Striped bass x white bass fingerlings made by using either striped bass females or white bass females are now available to growers. General information about techniques now used in hatcheries to produce hybrid striped bass follows.

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