You can respectfully agree or disagree, putting a little bit of salt in with your fish and dumping cuploads on soil are two different things. Salt accumulates, it will leech into your pond and then pretty much raise the salinity to the point nothing will grow in your pond either. The bodies of water on this planet with high salinity are dead zones. Put your fish in them and see what happens. No salt for me, not even when I transport fish. I don't beleive in it.