Thread: Black nose crappie

Hey guys. I'm not sure about the black nose being a "white river strain". I'm a fisheries biologist, and the story that I always heard was that this was a strain of fish that Tennessee developed. It is a natural trait found in some black crappie that must be dominant, bc parents always produce progeny with the mark. The advantage of the mark is that when it is stocked by a wildlife agency into a body of water that doesn't have them, it is obvious whether they do well or not. Basically, a way to determine if stockings are successful or not. Here is a link to a scientific abstract from the Souther Division of the American Fisheries Society, the premier fisheries management society in the world.

Crappie Stocking in Tennessee: The Blacknose Crappie Experience

Again, this is just what I have always heard, and what I could quickly find by searching.

I am from Illinois and they have them in a number of lakes. We called them Arkansas Snub Nose Crappie. Really never caught the good ones but now they are keeper and better size. 10 inches +. That is my two sense worth.

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Caught this one between a couple of rocks :D :D

you nut.

I have caught them from Lake Houston in Texas about 30 years ago.
DP

Ok folks. I was not 100% correct. I thought about this one last night, and decided to look into it further. Here is the TRUE story of the "blacknose crappie". The fish was first described in the scientific community by two guys named Buchanan (the leading authority of fish identification in Arkansas) and Bryant. This does not mean discovered by any means, just described scientifically for the first time. They were describing the trait in the black crappie population in Beaver lake in northwest Arkansas. Since then, it has been found that the trait occurs naturally in no less than 13 different black crappie populations from Florida to Wisconsin.

A man by the name of Boris Gomelsky who does aquaculture research at Kentucky State University decided to find out how the trait was inherited. It was always thought to be a dominant trait, but had not been proven. His research concluded that it was in fact a dominant trait, which means that in nature usually 3/4 will show the trait, and 1/4 will not. It was also found to be on an autosomal chromosome (not a sex chromosome), and therefore is not tied to the fishes gender.

That's it. If anyone is intensely into the subject, send me a PM, and I will e-mail you a copy of the Gomelsky's journal article. Like most scientific papers, especially helpful if you have trouble falling asleep!!

that's funny dr.

they all look the same to me in hot grease. what you think?

The game and fish outta list black nose crappie in the record book