LM Bass genetics/Lunkershare program

[holstonangler]

The Texas Game and Fish Department has a awesome program to increase the size and quantity of big largemouth bass. It's a great program in my opinion, in which it will most likely produce a world record in the future.

So here is where it gets cloudy, the shareholder program is the genetic program where they breed only 8+ to 12+ pound bass with other super sized bass (just like high fence deer operation with freakish looking deer).

If they were to break the world record with the help of this share lunker program, should this be considered the real world record?

 

[Gronkmonster]

Generically altered, I would say no. Need a new category =trans fish

 

[TRIGGER]

Not familiar with the program but I'm assuming they are keeping these fish in tanks and/or ponds? Are they releasing the fingerlings from these fish into the lakes?

 

[m r too ducks]

The big bass are donated to the program by fisherman who catch them in public lakes across Texas. They are only accepted from october thru april. Once the eggs are fertilized and the fingerlings reach a certain size they are released. The original big bass is then released into the lake it was caught in.

 

[Popcorn]

They are already out there, maybe not the results this new effort but I care for a few ponds that have been stocked with FL x TX f-1's l think they are referred to. They grow fast, seem to be thicker, hit and fight much harder, more like smallmouth, and grow larger, much larger. 8 to 10 pounds is fairly common and we have caught a few up to almost 14.
In regards to the op, if it could happen naturally it should be allowed if it's not a potentially natural occurrence then no.