I think the clean-up crew remove a LOT more than we realize.

A 3 years ago I stocked 40# into my personal pond and removed eight 5 gallon buckets of eating size (filleting sized) tilapia (no water in the buckets). I think I saw one dead one after the water cooled down.

The next year I stocked the same amount, and didn't get a chance to harvest any in the fall. I didn't see one dead one that fall or next spring.

Now, that could either mean that the dead ones were laying in deep water, where I couldn't see them, even with 5'-6' visibility, or that they were removed by something.

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