Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Stocking pond from other farm ponds??

There's pros and cons.

Besides what Bruce mentioned, some other cons include:
-the possibility of mis-identifying fish and introducing an undesirable species
-the chance of stocking fish bigger than what the developing food chain of a new pond can support
-IMHO less well defined stocking number guidance for using large fish (although we see so many different stocking schemes succeed and fail, and argue so much about them, this point may well be of limited validity)
-the relatively low cost of fingerlings for stocking a new pond compared to the cost of the pond itself

On the pro side:
-It's more Pondmeister-participatory and appeals to DYIers
-One could stock a few fish each from multiple sources, hopefully getting good genetic diversity

I would NOT recommend it for completely inexperienced pond owners who can't get fish identification help. If you were transferring fish from a pond with a good pedigree it would be much harder for a rookie to go wrong.

I will almost definitely use transfer of fish from my current pond for some of the stockers in a future pond.