GENETICS: Using genetics to produce big bass ... details 
ahead on Passport to Texas.

PTT from TPW and the SFWR Program

Dijar Lutz-Carrillo (DEE-har luhtz -- kah-REE-oh) is a 
geneticist at the A.W. Wood Laboratory in San Marcos.
 
And we do everything genetics related for Inland Fisheries. :03

Lutz-Carrillo says geneticists help to answer questions 
biologists might have about freshwater fish. Some of the 
questions currently being posed involve DNA 
"fingerprinting" of largemouth bass. 

In terms of the DNA fingerprinting, the questions they're 
specifically asking are: is this fish from this reservoir produced 
in the wild, or produced at the hatchery? And if it's produced at 
the hatchery is it with the OWR program -- or Operation World 
Record -- and if it's from that program, who are its parents in 
that program? So, you're asking the question who's your daddy? 
Yeah, that's the question (laughs). And your mommy. :22

Largemouth bass top the list of popular freshwater sport 
fish ... and Parks and Wildlife is attempting to produce 
world record bass using genetic testing and selective 
breeding. Loraine Fries (Fr-EYE-Z) is lab manager,

It's all related to fisheries management and our interest in 
having the best fishing in the world here in Texas. :08

We'll have more on this topic tomorrow.

That's our show ... supported by a grant from the Sport 
Fish and Wildlife Restoration Program ... working to 
increase fishing, hunting, shooting and boating 
opportunities in Texas. 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti. 





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Which is housed in but separate from the A.E. Wood Fish hatchery