Been thinking about this quite a bit after reading the recent PBM article. Here is my train of thought.... right or wrong..... When you place a forage species in your pond, the plan is to provide forage for your desired predator species. If you provide cover for the forage, and their spawn, you have reduced the accessibility of the forage to your target fish and may make them work harder for a meal to obtain a reasonable growth. If you provide no cover for the forage, they will disappear. So what to do? I had a thought while thinking (as my old engineering mentor Fritz would say), why not just supplement the forage base by adding another forage species or three to the mix and provide what they need to survive as well? Now your predators have multiple potential dinners and the forage is self sustaining?

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