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Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

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Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

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Sportsmen Since 1968

Preventing largemouth bass cannibalism is focus of Southern Illinois University study

“In the wild, (largemouth bass) eat live prey and often eat each other. It’s not unusual for a pond containing a bunch of little bass to produce one or two surviving big bass that have eaten their brothers and sisters,” said Jim Garvey, director of the Center for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences at SIU and a co-leader of the study. (Stock photo)

The largemouth bass is popular among anglers, who know that familiar “thump” of a fish hitting a lure.
But researchers at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale are studying ways to keep the infamously cannibalistic species off its own menu.
Can fishermen benefit from the research? It’s too early to say. Can anglers learn from it? Most certainly they can.

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