07-02-2010, 05:09 AM
They are absolutly right. But the thesis you are quoting has to do with the genetic differences bewteen naturally occuring walleye. I never said I cant remember where I got my info from, just I cant find the article. But the university studies coincided with the studies of planted walleye in water that they do not naturally occure in. Of course the natural walleye devoloped their genetic differences thousands of years ago by geographic seperation. But man has only been planting them in non native waters for about a hundred years or so. When I read the article, they said they stumbled upon these differences by accident. As WalleyeCentral.com is a walleye fishermans site, they thought it would be a good read, as it was. The links you have provided do sound like a portion of the information in the study i read.
Like I said, I have looked through their site and as they update articles frequently, I can not find the material to support what I have said. But different species of fish, bird, mammal, and reptile have been proven to geneticly adapt faster that others in their group. So I dont understand why its so hard to believe walleye do. I didnt say they mutate into some sort of hairy wild fish that will get out of the lake and eat deer if they run out of food, just they develop specialized genes rather quickly.
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Like I said, I have looked through their site and as they update articles frequently, I can not find the material to support what I have said. But different species of fish, bird, mammal, and reptile have been proven to geneticly adapt faster that others in their group. So I dont understand why its so hard to believe walleye do. I didnt say they mutate into some sort of hairy wild fish that will get out of the lake and eat deer if they run out of food, just they develop specialized genes rather quickly.
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