Requirements for becoming a Core Species Maintenance Program member.

There is a much longer official document concerning the requirements. You are welcome to have a copy of this document. This page though will give you the quick version with the highlights. The official document has more information, the setup of the whole core and emergency species programs, as well as suggestions of how to maintain as much genetic diversity as possible.

Member of Core Species Maintenance Program

Be a member of the American Killifish Association (AKA) in good standing.

The effort is to keep, breed, and maintain the genetic diversity of the given species, not to change it, mutate it, or select new breeding stock based on some particular trait.
You will need to take great pains before outcrossing your species maintenance fish to be absolutely positive they are not a mixed population.
You are willing to commit to keeping these fish for a period of 2 years. If something comes up, your coordinator needs time to find a replacement person, hopefully to takeover with a population of your fish.
Report your core fish population condition (deaths, spawns, number of fry, etc.) twice a year to the species coordinator. Results or lack of results being reported are very important to measuring what is successful and what is not. At this stage, everything is a learning experiment
Provide the first right of refusal on the purchase of excess stock if that stock is needed to startup a new member of the group or to 'share genes' with other members. Many times this consist of a fish or egg swap.
The fish are yours to buy, sell, trade, giveaway, as long as the other group members have the ability to tap into your stocks if needed. Trades or agreed upon pricings of course.
The effort is to take a picture of the fish today, breed them for generations and generations, and a new picture look just like the first picture.

Species Coordinator
Each species group formed will need a species coordinator. This person should first have some good experience with the particular species. Other members will look to you for guidance and help, as well as from the other members.
You will be responsible for putting together a group of people to work with your chosen species, and help to get them some fish to work with if they do not already have a reliable population. The search for participants on this site will probably give you a starting point.
Send a report to me monthly that I can combine with the other species groups and forward up to C h a r l e s N u n z i a t a.