With the price of fish food increasing (32$ a bag)it makes even more sense to me to fertilize and allow nature to help feed your fish, if you can do it without killing them. I wonder how many pounds of fish food one pound of fertilizer produces? I was reading in a farming magazine how fertilizing your hay fields is more important now than ever due to the high cost of feed. The key to the equation is that fertilizing your pond is much harder to control and should be used with caution but couldn't the statement be made that a little bit is good but too much is bad? How many of you are planning on fertilizing this year?