Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking Recovering from a fish kill (LMB)

It may not be widely publicized, but that is the difference between sitting in an office or house looking at the computer for data instead of getting out in the real world, getting your hands dirty and getting hands on data. It's common in the fish hatchery business in Arkansas where they raise millions and millions of fish annually for pond stocking. Will a business publish a paper on how they do it? Why would they and give their competition a leg up on making $$? That would be business suicide. What is the definition of "widely or commonly practiced"? It's common in the fish raising business. A few years ago I picked up 30,000 3/4" LMB from a hatchery in Arkansas in early January and brought them to an indoor Recirculating Aquaculture facility in Ohio so they could be raised for pond stocking in late Spring. I'm sure that the hatchery in Arkansas didn't hold them since the natural spawning time of late April and starved them to keep them at that size - they were tiny chunky footballs when I picked them up.

If you want to check on-line published data on manipulating spawning for predatory fish and how they are raised 100% indoors, look for a paper that was published by UW Stevens Point on spawning and raising Walleye for the food industry. They figured out how to spawn Walleye 12 months of the year, and they never saw pond water. IIRC it's about 60 pages.