Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking Wipers

Some fish guys just want to sell fish, and don't look out for the customers best interests. Just like a car salesman, if someone comes in to the dealership and wants a 2 seater sports car, but really needs a mini-van, the salesman will sell them what they want, not what they really need.

If the biologist was going off of data or recommendations that was generated by the State, that data could be decades or many, many decades old. Back then, ponds were used as a food source, and people harvested more fish from them per acre than they do today. So, an initial stocking of 200 LMB per acre might see a heavy harvest of LMB once they got to 12"-14" long for the dinner table. That same pond in a couple years time might only have 50-75 adult LMB left in it, and a relatively large standing crop of juvenile LMB.

That's why German Carp were introduced - they are a popular food fish in Europe, and will produce a lot of pounds of fish per acre of water. In the '20's and '30's, that was needed. Now not so much....