Cryingfish

In my opinion, it would produce the same type of spawner as that of the specie that it been cloned from. Since the patent specie has never before spawned and knew what is was to do, the same specie should inherently carry over the same spawning instinct.

That's how I see it. I may be wrong, but most likely I am not.

The prodigy of cloned fish should not be sterile because "they are" the same exact genetic make up as their parents (and their parents were not sterile). The more genetic samples they can get, the more diversified the genetic pool will be.

That way, you just don't have to depend on a single "clone" of any one wild fish; you have many "different" diversified clones' which in tern, should represent an entire run, or stock of fish.

Cowlitzfisherman