Channel/Blue Hybrids

[Mike]

The Blue/Channel Hybrid is becoming popular among commercial catfish farmers. They have major advantages over a regular channel. Auburn University developed the techniques to create the hybrid.

Advantages (as opposed to 'pure' channels):
30-100% increase in growth rate
10-50% higher disease resistance
When 100% of channel catfish die from low dissolved oxygen, only 33% of the hybrids die
$700-$2,800 more profit/acre

They would be a lot cooler to stock in a pond as opposed to channel cats.


Links
Auburn University Project
Hybrid Production
Hybrid Dealer

[Alsept1]

Thats one cool looking fish they come up with. Wouldn't mind seeing one of those on the end of my line.

[python]

I wonder how big they will get???

[catfishchad]

Yea i bet they get big....becasue look at hybrid strippers they get huge...along with grass carp(i think they are hybrids)

[bennie8888]

i got to catch some hybrid channels at beaver lake. girth on these fish are crazy.

[springwatermark]

wonder how i can get some of those babies in my lake???

[Chris]

Lake Erie stocked thousands of pounds of blue and channel hybrids about twenty years ago. If you buy any wild channels from Erie chances are you will get em in your lake. Out of six loads stocked last year here at Reds we got about 20 hybrids. The guy that stocks channels from me pointed them out to me last year. I called them blues and he then showed the differences. I was told that channels and blues will crossbreed I never researched it before. That will give me something to do on the next 5 cold and rainy days ahead!!