News release: Altered male fish could be key to controlling invasive pikeminnow
Rafael Cuevas Uribe wants to rid the Eel River of all female Sacramento pikeminnows in order to help the river’s salmon population. Cuevas Uribe and Andre Buchheister, professors of Fisheries Biology at Cal Poly Humboldt, were recently awarded a $150,000 grant from CalTrout, a non-profit conservation group, to help eliminate the invasive species from the Eel River. … Cuevas Uribe and Buchheister hope to use an aquaculture method of breeding fish that could result in a population of all male fish, keeping the pikeminnow from being able to continue to reproduce. The Trojan Y strategy modifies the genetics of the fish to produce YY males.