The Search for Eggs Continues

With all of the hatcheries in NYS as well as colleges that support agriculture, we thought someone might be able to help us find minnow eggs.  We are now finding out that most people let minnows breed naturally and this is just the wrong time of year to find minnow eggs.  Most if not all of the hatcheries on the DEC list were shut down for the season.  SUNY Cobleskill could help us out with Trout eggs but they are 5 mm in diameter and will not fit into the experiment well.  A professor at Ithaca College does do research with the breeding of minnows.  Their mating and breeding can be used as environmental indicators.  Unfortunately she didn’t answer her phone or return emails.  We also left messages at SUNY Morrisville.