Cycling w my 2 walmart GSP's

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scpion wrote:Not really. They do migrate to lower sg or even FW to spawn. That's y the younger ones are caught in FW and how the misconception of they are FW came about.
No, they breed at marine salinities (new research a few years ago at the University of Florida, their sperm is not motile in freshwater, so they cannot breed there).
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Oops.. That's what I have been reading..
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Yes, that's an old concept, which never was prooved and actually contradicted later.

It was this study: http://www.mendeley.com/research/use-no ... -3/#page-1
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