NANFA Mailing List Archive: Re: NANFA-L-- Holston River Obsevations

In a message dated 4/20/2005 11:09:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ashtonmj2003-in-yahoo.com writes:

This area from a personal communication had historically had up to 100
caught in an hour. I was focusing in one small probably 100 m long 30 m wide
stretch and got my 25 and I don't know how many others I saw get away.

Well they went into long fiberglass holding tanks in our mussel lab and
whomever is working on this research coming in this summer will probably be
infesting them with a certain species of mussel glochidia to determine whether or
not they are host fish-in-all and-in-what rates they infest and produce
viable larvae mussels if they are a suitable host fish. I am sure that they could
also be looked-in-to see what things they currently have on them as well, a
natural infestation study, or how many times a species can be infested,
becuase usually after one or two infestations they become immune.

your in cookeville i do believe. you know... you should host a trip in your
area... an area i have not visited but a few times tho many times to the east
of you in big south fork. many of us would like to see the fishtanks, mussel
lab, etc-in-the university. it would make a great destination and a bonus
would be to visit the university's facility. summer is good a good time. get
down this way and you will see plenty of redlines as well as a mulitude of
others... and then you got the conasauga for a whole new plate.

casper

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