Roger Yant graduated from Auburn in 1975 with a master’s degree. So, we’re working on selective breeding to develop lines of channels and blues that, combined, make increasingly better hybrids.” “Even though the hybrid is a great fish, it isn’t perfect.
“We’ve worked every year trying to improve the technique for artificially producing these hybrid eggs.” Dunham says the reason hybrids aren’t already more widespread is the difficulty to getting the two species - channel catfish and blue catfish - to mate. To that end, Auburn’s research is focused in two areas: “One of our goals is, within five to 10 years, to have a majority of the catfish industry utilizing the hybrid.” But for the traditional pond farms, they’re a vast improvement over channel cats.
“They don’t do well in cages or small tanks. “The hybrid is a fabulous fish for pond culture,” says Rex Dunham, Auburn professor.
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