Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Barramundi in the US

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Anybody heard of the barramundi?
Thought this would be an interesting topic.
There is some debate here as to the ability to keep yet another exotic out of our waters of the State.

Yes I did investigate this fish as pond material after seeing it on one of the food network shows. I soon lost interest though after finding out it needs even warmer water than the tilapia.

Rad is raising some in his pond.

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Yes, a great sport fish on the fly caught mostly in Australia, Papua, New Guinea and New Zealand. Along with Trevally, it is a fish I hope to be fortunate enough to catch one day. They are a catadromous species which grow to maturity in the upper reaches of freshwater rivers and streams and then move downstream as an adult, to coastal salt waters for spawning....kind of "snook" like in that they hang out around mangroves.

Interesting that they are now in a Florida fish farm...and have survived one winter so far. It's a small world and getting smaller every day.

I recently saw on the food network that a fish farm in New York was experimenting with raising them indoors as a replacement in the resteraunts for seabass. Meadowlark maybe you could add them to your hot tubb with the tilapia.

ML maybe you and I should try to get some and try them out.