Originally posted by Meadowlark:
Cecil,
Can you estimate the weight of the biomass in that pond? It probably is roughly equivalent to a stocking rate of 15000 per acre of 3 inch BG? ((500 * 9 inches* 10)/3) Does that sound about right?
I'd say a minimum of the equivilent of 3000 pounds per acre this spring. I had at least 480 bluegills that averages a half a pond = 240 lbs. 1/10th acre X 10 equals one acre. I put in 20 yellow perch that averaged 1 lb., and God knows how many bluegill fry are in the pond. Wouldn't surprise me to find there are at least 50 lbs of fry in the pond.
I was told by a biologist to never go over 2000 lbs. per acre with fish of the sunfish family in aquaculture ponds unless you add additonal areation.
