Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations planning a PB member Yellow Perch experiment

Dono - I see a couple options to help your lack of recruitment.

1. allow more YP ribbons to hatch in the pond. If the ribbons are not draped off the bottom - see to it that happens.

2. It is not all bad that recruitment is low for your needs. A significant number of YOY perch will not learn to utilize pellets. To compensate for harvest of YP get more every year or two from your supplier. Considering all factors, the price for pellet trained farm raised, mid-sized stocker perch is a very good investment. You are fortunate that you have a YP production grower where you can purchase pellet trained YP that are well habituated to pellets. Restocking these YP will insure your YP fishery is the best it can be with fast growing, harvestable high quality YP.