Yes based on Dave's question about RES to me several years ago I started researching and ask FS if they had ever encountered a stunted RES or pond with over populated RES. Not one of them had ever encountered that and there is no written info that I can find that suggests that RES stunt or become over populated.

PS do quite often over populate and combining them with BG in unmanaged ponds makes matters worse.

Bill is absolutely correct in his statements. All of the state level pond mgt books (many as part of the Co-Op Ext service) were written for a different time and place ( for people with no concept of pond mgt and at a time when pond mgt as we now know it did not exist). In addition most were written to inform people how to manage the pond under a food source concept (feed hungry people). While they have good basic info they must be read in the light for which they were intended. Some of them are now being re-written in part to update the concepts with new info but still , because of the guidelines for which they are intended , can not suggest cutting edge methods because of the risk they carry for uninformed pond owners.

I would wait and get some RES or at least hold off on the PS until the LMB have the BG in control.