Sanity is not a prerequisite for bucket stocking....just ask canyoncreek. In addition, high water events account for a great many inadvertent stockings. Plus, how did the catfish get in there? Was each and every fish carefully examined before being turned into the pond, in order to guarantee species?
Or was the bag/bucket of fish just dumped into the water??
I have a hard time believing that a fertilized BG egg could attach itself to a bird's foot, survive the trip to a new pond without drying out, be deposited in a viable state, AND still continue developing and eventually hatch, without the male BG being there to fan water/O2 over the egg?
