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Native Walleye Strain Identified In Ohio River - DrownedDesertRat - 01-06-2005 [center][/center][font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]Native Walleye Strain Identified In Ohio River [/size][/#000000][/font] [font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]CHARLESTON, WV—Biologists have identified a strain of walleye that is native to the Ohio River, and is genetically different from the lake-strain fish that various states have used to stock tributaries of the river during the last 30 to 50 years.[/size][/#000000][/font] [font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]Dr. Matthew White of Ohio University's Department of Biological Sciences, along with Dr. Joseph Faber, Division of Natural Sciences at West Virginia University, identified the strain, which they say is better adapted to a river environment. [/size][/#000000][/font] [font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]Though further testing is necessary, White says, "we may find that the two strains separated hundreds of thousands of years ago. [black][size 1](as reporting in the NAFC newsletter)[/size][/black] [/size][/#000000][/font] [signature] Re: [DrownedDesertRat] Native Walleye Strain Identified In Ohio River - TackleTester - 01-19-2005 That's pretty cool....although, it's pretty hard to believe a native anything could survive in that poluted dump of a fishery....at least the part I am closest to. Catch em up Brian [signature] Re: [DrownedDesertRat] Native Walleye Strain Identified In Ohio River - HuckelburryFinn - 01-19-2005 well what do ya know, there's a few of them things still hangin around, I thought they was all gone by now, that is with all them artificial plantins an all. [signature]