First Currin Scholarship

KSU Nursing student Quentin Jackson (L) accepts
the first Jessica Currin scholarship from
KAA President Joe Currin.

Kentucky State University student Quentin Jackson was awarded the Jessica Currin Memorial Scholarship at the General Assembly Welcome Reception on Wednesday, Feb. 8.

The reception was held at KSU’s College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems. 

Jackson, a nursing program senior, is the first student to receive the Jessica Currin Memorial Scholarship.

The KSU scholarship is in memory of Jessica Currin who was kidnapped, raped and murdered in Mayfield, Ky., in 2000.

Joe Currin and Aquaculture Program Chairman Dr. James Tidwell awarded the scholarship to Jackson. Joe Currin is the current president of the Kentucky Aquaculture Association
and Jessica’s father. 

Protect Your Ponds

Two Aquatic Pesticide
Training Programs
In Feb. & March

CEU credits will be awarded for these programs.

Mr. Forest Wynne, Dr. Bill Wurts and
Dr. Bob Durborow are presenting aquatic pesticide training programs on Feb.10 in Princeton, KY, and March 9 at KSU’s Aquaculture Research Center in Frankfort.

The March 9 program will feature presentations by KSU Aquaculture faculty and Extension specialists as well as tours of the research facility.

For more information...

Forrest Wynne, State Extension Specialist for Aquaculture, Kentucky State University Cooperative Extension Program, Graves County Extension Office, Mayfield, KY 42066
Phone 270-247-2334, fax 270-247-5193, e mail fwynne@email.uky.edu

AGENDA

KSU Study:

Evaluating Florida Bass in Kentucky

with

Richloam Bass Conservation Center

Largemouth bass juveniles are removed from tanks in Webster, Florida, and
transported by truck to KSU's Aquaculture Research Center in Frankfort, Ky.

KSU researchers recently traveled to Webster, Florida, to the Richloam Bass Conservation Center to pickup juvenile largemouth bass of the Florida variety.  The largemouth bass has a large distribution throughout North and Central America, and there are several varieties, with one of the most well known being the Florida strain. 

As the Florida variety is known to ultimately attain a larger size than their Northern counterparts, they have been relocated into recreational fisheries across the USA by state and federal fisheries agencies.  Based on previous reports of poor survival in northern locations, it is  assumed the Florida variety will not survive winter conditions in Kentucky.  It is KSU’s  intent to prove or disprove this assumption.  

KSU Co-Investigator Shawn Coyle inspects bass juveniles before placing them on the
truck for the trip to Kentucky. The oxygen level is monitored closely throughout the trip.

The Richloam Bass Conservation Center has improved upon and developed several new technologies related to the intensification of the larval-rearing period for the Florida largemouth bass, largely building upon work initiated at KSU’s Aquaculture Research Center. 

A collaborative effort is now under way to evaluate the culture potential of the Florida largemouth bass in Kentucky as well as the potential benefit of intra-specific hybridization between the Florida and the Northern variety found here in Kentucky. 

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