Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Stocking before full pool reached

As I understand it, "Recruitment" is the number of fish that survive to year 1 and beyond. If 1000 eggs hatch, but all the fry get eaten in the first year, that would be zero "recruitment". If only 10 out of the 1000 survive the first year, those 10 are the "recruitment".