Welcome to PB! What are your goals and desires for the pond?

If you can legally stock Tilapia, they are about the only fish that is good at eating that stuff. The upside is that they will also provide forage for any LMB that you have in the pond (their babies or YOY will) and you might be able to catch some out for the dinner table as well. The downside (if you want to call it that) is that they don't survive in water much below 50*F, so you'd have to stock them every year that you have an algae problem. The only other options would be to remove it manually, either raking or a prickly rope; or treat it with chemicals.

Now, the question is why is it there? It's feeding on nutrients that aren't being used by other plants.

One thing that I've seen when questions like this are asked, everybody (myself included) has good solutions to the immediate problem (i.e. removing/getting rid of the algae), but the long term solutions aren't addressed.

Forum experts, can you chime in with some long term solutions?

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