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BAP/HAP Committee Members
If you have Fish or Plants to be verified for the Breeders Award Program or the Horticulture Award Program please contact one of the following committee members for verification:
Breeders Award Program (BAP)
Kevin Acton, Bill Bishopp, Walter Bueckert, Dana Allan, Dwayne Hopper, Terry Thiessen, Kevin Kaschl
Horticulture Award Program (HAP)
Kevin Acton, Bill Bishopp, Walter Bueckert, Dwayne Hopper, Aaron Haacke
If you have Fish or Plants to be verified for the Breeders Award Program or the Horticulture Award Program please contact one of the following committee members for verification:
Breeders Award Program (BAP)
Kevin Acton, Bill Bishopp, Walter Bueckert, Dana Allan, Dwayne Hopper, Terry Thiessen, Kevin Kaschl
Horticulture Award Program (HAP)
Kevin Acton, Bill Bishopp, Walter Bueckert, Dwayne Hopper, Aaron Haacke
- BREEDERS AWARD PROGRAM
1.0 Purpose
1.1 To foster the breeding and study of aquatic organisms, particularly fish.
1.2 To encourage the use of written records.
1.3 To encourage the maintenance of species which may be endangered in their home environment.
1.4 To encourage the improvement of existing species and to prevent the deterioration of local stocks
2.0 Organization
2.1 BREEDER'S AWARD COMITTEE:
2.1.1 A Breeder's Award Committee shall be appointed by the Board, and shall consist of a BAP Chairman and other members of the SAS as needed
3.0 General Regulations
Applying to all Achievement Levels
3.1 Team awards are possible but points are lost if the team dissolves.
3.2 Twenty-five percent of the spawn hatched, as determined by a count made by the BAP committee member verifying the spawning within a week of hatching, must be reared to 60 days from hatching; - If less than 40 fry are hatched in classes A or B, a minimum of 10 fry must be reared.
- In classes C or D, a minimum of 5 fry must be reared.
- If more than 100 fry are hatched, a minimum of 25 fry must be raised for classes A, B, C, or D.
- In addition, five quality fry must be made available for auction at a regular meeting of the SAS with no minimum bid. This requirement may be waived by the BAP Committee, if requested by the participant, to further support the purposes of the BA Program. The BAP Committee may request an article in lieu of the 5 fry.
3.3 Verification must be made by the BAP committee member within 7 days of hatching, birth, or release. The parents must have also been verified. Alternatively, a good quality video of the fry, within 7 days of hatching, and the parents may be submitted to a BAP Committee member. The video must be made such that a reasonable count of the fry may be made. The fry must be verified again after 60 days from the date of hatching, birth, or release.
3.4 Points will be awarded only once to each applicant for each species with the exceptions listed in the requirements for Senior and higher awards.
3.5 Parents must be owned by the aquarist "spawning" them.
3.6 All spawnings must be recorded on record sheets available from the SAS and must include the date the parents were acquired, and the source of the parents.
3.7 Written spawning records must be completed and include temperature, kinds and number of feedings, and where possible, water conditions. (Points will not be awarded if records are incomplete.)
3.8 In general hybrids will not be allowed in the BAP Program.
4.0 LEVELS OF ACHIEVEMENT
Senior and higher awards may be achieved by the following criteria:
4.1 Any selection of species to the required point total.
4.2 Line breeding for improvement or a particular development in a strain (up to 200 points).
4.3 Maintenance of a species or strain (up to 100 points).
4.4 Breeding of fishes known to the hobby for some time, but for which spawnings have been rare or non-existent (up to 150 points).
4.5 Breeding of fishes new to the hobby (up to 50 points).
4.6 Any combination of #1 to #5 above.
- JUNIOR Breeder's Award 25 points and 3 species
- INTERMEDIATE Breeder's Award 50 points an additional 4 species
- ADVANCED Breeder's Award 100 points an additional 8 species
- SENIOR Breeder's Award 300 points as below
- MASTER Breeder's Award 600 points as below
- GRAND MASTER Breeder's Award 1000 points as below
- GRAND MASTER AWARD II 1500 points as below
- GRAND MASTER AWARD III 2000 points as below
Senior and higher awards may be achieved by the following criteria:
4.1 Any selection of species to the required point total.
4.2 Line breeding for improvement or a particular development in a strain (up to 200 points).
4.3 Maintenance of a species or strain (up to 100 points).
4.4 Breeding of fishes known to the hobby for some time, but for which spawnings have been rare or non-existent (up to 150 points).
4.5 Breeding of fishes new to the hobby (up to 50 points).
4.6 Any combination of #1 to #5 above.
5.0 ACQUIRING CREDIT
5.1 CLASSES A AND B:
A member of the HAP Committee must witness the plant or plants reproduced or flowered. For plants reproducing by runner or division, a BAP Committee member must witness the plants prior to separation, after separation from the parent plant, and again at least 30 days after separation, at which time both the parent plant and reproduced plant must be living. Also, a plant checklist must be submitted by the aquarist claiming points.
5.2 CLASSES C AND D:
In addition to the requirements for Classes A and B, the aquarist must also submit a summary of reproduction procedures used, either orally at a club meeting or written for publication. Written summaries must be at least 350 words in length for a single species, 500 for a genus. Verbatim copying from another source is not allowed.
5.3 CLASS E:
A member of the HAP Committee must witness the plant and flower under the conditions in which it flowered. Alternatively, a good quality video of the plant and the flower may be submitted to the BAP Committee.
6.0 ADDITIONAL NOTES
7.0 POINT CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS
7.1 CLASS A - FIVE POINTS PER SPECIES PROPAGATED
7.2 CLASS B - TEN POINTS PER SPECIES PROPAGATED
7.3 CLASS C - FIFTEEN POINTS PER SPECIES PROPAGATED
7.4 CLASS D - TWENTY POINTS PER SPECIES PROPAGATED
7.5 CLASS E - FLOWERING
Extra points and recognition will be awarded for all reported flowerings of aquatic plants. The additional points will be the same as those resulting from the propagation of the plant according to classes A to D.
7.6 CLASS F - SEEDS
As under Class E.
7.7 CLASS G - SEXUAL REPRODUCTION
As under Class E.
