Bruce Stallsmith wrote:
> Most triploid fishes are sterile most of the time. But some very low
> number either won't truly be triploid, or else they can successfully
> produce viable gametes through some cellular error like meiotic
> nondisjunction (in short, they can produce eggs or sperms with the
> typical haploid complement of chromosomes). The chances of some kind
> of screw up with such fish always struck me as too large to be worth
> the risk of introducing such a potentially bad exotic. I'm sure some
> kind of literature exists on the question, both pro and con, but I'm
> not familiar with it.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
>> From: "Tom Watson" <onefish2fish_at_attbi.com>
>> Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>> Subject: Re: NANFA-- asian carp
>> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:43:04 -0700
>>
>> The State of Washington Fish and Wildlife people use "triploid grass
>> carp"
>> that are supposed to be sterile. They beat chemicals for weed control.
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