If the exact species are not needed for some special type of fishery combination, then traveling fish trucks can be a source of your fish. It only takes a male & female of the wrong species to create some unwanted fish in the pond.
However when a specific type of fish species combination is very important, all fish received should be hand sorted due to frequent forms of unintentional and accidental mixing of the fish species during the live fish growing and selling business. IMO this more commonly occurs with traveling fish trucks but it is known to happen at all fish farms especially when buying the small fingerling sized fishes.

Last edited by Bill Cody; 04/29/26 10:49 AM.

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