Bull Shoals- Mdc Taking Walleye For Spawn 2013 - Video

[Outside Bend]

To effect the next generation or the next 100 generations it would have to alter the genetic sequence. Considerer also that the eggs are fully developed when the hormone is injected in the adult and likely have little or no exposure to it anyway.

Another hmmmm... Since the eggs and milt are stirred with a turkey feather, are they likely to turn into turkeyes?

If McGuire had confused HCG with HGH... well... let's just say sprouting milky breasts would have been a bigger embarrasment... :-)

Exactly- you're not altering the genetic material of the walleye. Just as you don't turn into a human-mushroom hybrid when you're injected with penicillin (fungi crap), walleye-carp hybrids don't pop up because you inject one with the hormones of the other.

[bfishn]

Yep.

fishinwrench raised a valid concern though, that the released broodfish could be caught and eaten by someone just a couple weeks after treatment.

The product MDC uses is a relief in that regard (Thanks for the link Lilley);

"Chorulon is the only hormonal spawning aid approved by the FDA in the USA for use in finfish (NADA no. 140-927)."

Carp pituitary wasn't (and apparrently still isn't) foodfish approved. When I used it, it was on the low-level assessment list, meaning they weren't too worried about it, but no one had spent the $ to do the testing to get it approved. For my use, that was never a problem, as I was far too attached to my 30 or so 5-10llb rainbow breeders to even think about killing one for the skillet. They all died of natural causes over the years, the last 10 or so killed by freak lightning one night. I know, fish killed by lightning... I never heard of it either, but it happened. They all had burst swim bladders and internal bleeding.