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Five attempts at spawning one female with one to two males 8-13 May, produced an estimated 9500 eggs (Table 2). Lanigan (1987) reports that about 4500 eggs were fertilized (47.9% fertility ?). Personal communication with Toney again suggests that Lanigan's numbers may be erroneous. Records indicate that eggs were collected and fertilized in the field on 11 and 13 May. All eggs produced 8-13 May were incubated outdoors in a Heath incubator at water temperatures of 16-210C. Water at a rate of 2.0 gpm was recirculated from a 300 gallon fiberglass tank. Apparently a problem with fungus again hampered incubation. The eggs were treated daily with the fungicide malachite green at a concentration of 2.2 ppm. The fungicide treatment was successful in preventing egg fungus in the outdoor incubator. Records indicate that the eggs later finished incubation in a earthen pond (pond #1 ?) at water temperatures of 16-210C. A problem with fungus did not reoccur in the pond. Approximately 3,189 fry hatched from this group of eggs (71% hatch ?). These fry hatched in 7-8 days and were placed in holding tanks. Thus, a total of 3,299 fry hatched during 1987 (16.9% overall hatch ?). POND REARING Between 16-29 May, 2,894 fry were hand counted to pond #1. Water temperatures varied during this period from 17-200C. In addition, approximately 399 fry were placed in a 300 gallon fiberglass tank outdoors. This tank was saturated with plankton obtained from pond #3, and the fry were also fed a commercial starting diet (Kyowa A-400). It is not known exactly how much of the starting diet was fed to the fry (no records). Six fish from the original 3,299 fry are unaccounted for and presumed lost due to mortality. During the first week of July, 360 fry were transferred from the outdoor tank to pond #3 (90.2% survivability). Apparently no sample counts of weights or sizes were made. The fish were held in ponds #1 and #3 until 28 October