I have a client with exactly your same goals and criteria. You have to go about it a bit differently. First start out with how many pounds of fish you want to harvest from the pond weekly. Next is feeding and aeration. Ponds can hold more fish and grow more fish if they are aerated and the fish are supplementally fed.

It all depends on how you will be preparing the fish too. If you are de-heading, gutting and scaling and cooking with skin and bones in, you can harvest smaller fish. If you want to fillet your fish, then they have to be larger.

So:
Pounds of fish per week/month/year?
Will you be feeding and aerating?

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