3) Unless the fish are pellet trained, transferring those larger fish to a pond and expecting them to figure out where to go to get their food is an iffy thing.if you expect those fish to keep growing quickly.
Your point #3 is definitely one of the problems when attempting to transfer fish from one pond to another and expecting them to thrive.
Follow up questions:
A.) For pellet-trained fish (of any species), are there any estimates for what % of their diet is pellets versus how much forage they still capture?
B.) If you transfer a low number of predators to a pond teeming with forage AND without existing predators, would that significantly reduce the odds of the new predators failing to thrive. I would assume abundant forage, including some in the exact optimal size range, combined with the forage NOT being trained to avoid predation would be a very encouraging environment for the introduced LMB.
