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I have been feeding every day in the warmer months for over two years. I am thinking about quitting after my current stock of feed (about 115 pounds) runs out.
Wife is mad we have very negative feed return after catfish eating otter disaster.
Very few BG are big enough to eat after 2.6 years. I'm only feeding BG now. Nothing else comes to feed. What happens with the BG if I quit feeding them in my two 1/4 acre ponds?
I have been feeding about 50 lbs/month. Will the BG die or just get thin?
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It depends on the current status of your population (% of carrying capacity being used). It is a challenge anytime one has been using feeding or fertilization to increase pond productivity to stop unless you manage the downward shift in food supplies. Your case is a little different in that many of the big food eaters have been otter harvested. It may be that enough reduction has happened so that the pond at normal production (no fert or feeding) could carry the fish there.
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