Travis -- we can have tilapia in WV. If they come from out of state, we are supposed to get an importation permit. That is it.
I'm just not able to find a source. Some WVU friends have gotten them in past years from Alabama and Louisiana, but they had to drive down and back with tanks.
The FA is pretty much in less than 12 inches of water. I hand feed that pond most evenings. When I do, I use a garden rake to pull out the leaves and FA in certain areas. Most of the shoreline, out as far as the rake reaches, has been raked as of this evening, Very little FA remains.
My banks are too steep to clean the edges with my tractor and landscape rake. I tried using my 2-inch semi-trash pump to pull out the FA, but the leaves and FA clogged the impeller.
I need to find, or make a much wider rake. I've been thinking about finding a used 4-5 foot wide landscape rake and welding up a hitch to use in place of the bucket on my tractor backhoe.
Ken
