Question is, do you consider a triploid a Rainbow?
http://nwsportsmanmag.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/nearly-35-pd-rainbow-landed-in-se-id-lake/
What else would you call it? It is a rainbow that has been “sterilized”.
Sure it’s a rainbow. 
Would an angler still be an angler if they were, how should I say this, fixed? 
so my question is: if you were a catch and release angler, would you release? I am mainly a catch and release angler when i comes to wild trout and cutthroats. I do keep rainbows only to be eatten that day. I will not keep fish to freeze because i will not eat them later (unless its salmon or steelhead), so if its past dinner or i’m not cooking fish, I release. Now this fish is not for eatting so by my “rule”, it would be a releaser. I think my pride and ego would get in the way…I’d keep it!!
Frankenfish should have their own class in the records.
+1
Genetically, triploids are significantly different.
If triploids count, why not striper? Or elk, for that matter.
Cut the legs off a cow, paint a pink stripe down the side and throw it in the water!
So now the questions is; if a fish is genetically altered so it can’t breed and now focuses on eating and getting big, should it have its own record classification different from the natural, non-genetically altered fish?
Ok, sounds good to me but it is still a rainbow.
That fish is still shy of the world record.
Triploids are like Bonds…altered. don’t they have extra chromasome?
Is it only I who couldn’t care less? I’d have let that thing go so fast, my head woudl spin.
Mark
Shouldn’t the “modified” fish be considered the same as ball players on steroids?
I had the same thought Ray, if it’s listed as a record there should be an asterisk by the entry.
I don’t guess it will be in any shape to testify before Congress, although it is probably about as bright as some who did.
It would be thrown out of the Olympics.
Maodiver,
Technically i would probably still have the same number of sets of chromosomes, but instead of having sets composed of pairs, it has sets composed of threes. It is therefore a rather different beast. It might still be listed as the same speices, but I think that it should be handled differently for record-keeping. For whatever it is worth, species of wheats come as diploids (chromosomes in pairs), tetraploids (chromosomes in groups of 4), and hexaploids (chromosomes in groups of 6). All of this is natural with no lab-work by man. The diploids are the oldest species. Bread wheats are mostly hexaploids, the most recent species.
Ed