| Common name: |
Largemouth Bass |
| Scientific name: |
Micropterus salmoides |
| Production potential: |
Moderate |
| Marketing potential: |
Potential: High
Size: 1.0 - 2.5 lbs for food and 4-8 inches for fingerlings
Market: Sport, Food |
| Temperature requirements: |
Growing: 55-80oF
Spawning: 60-65oF
Lethal: NA |
| Feed requirements: |
Protein: 40% diets are normally fed from
fingerlings to adults after fingerlings have been trained to accept commercial diets.
Fat: 8-10% |
| Spawning requirements: |
Spawning occurs during the spring and early
summer when water temperatures reach 60-65oF, nest layers, 13,000 eggs/lb. body
weight, eggs begin to hatch after four days. |
Most common
production systems: |
Ponds for spawning and grow-out to food fish size. Small fingerlings are normally removed
from ponds and trained to accept commercial diets using flow through systems. |
