This hybrid is sterile and may have the potential for stock-out in waters where strict control of predator fish is desired. Unfortunately, literature regarding the culture of the chain pickerel appears to be limited. Its potential as a culture species or as a food-fish has not been explored. The chain pickerel and its hybrids may possess desirable sportfish potential for Kentucky's small lakes and ponds. Pickerel would be able to tolerate the extremes of water temperatures which occur throughout the year in Kentucky's small impoundments.
Pickerel offer productive angling throughout the year.
Tolerance of low pH may allow pickerel to inhabit ponds where acid waters can not be easily treated. A Distributional Atlas of Kentucky Fishes. Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission Scientific and Technical Series Number 4. Hall, G. E. Editor, 1986. A Treatise on the Biology and Propagation of Muskellunge in North America.