Originally Posted by FishinRod
Rusto,

I don't know much at all about paddlefish.

I did find a fascinating article. Apparently they do thrive in ponds. And there is a fish supplier in Missouri that stocks them in people's ponds and then comes back a few years later to harvest the caviar.

It is Osage Catfisheries. I think their facility is located by the Lake of the Ozarks.

https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g9470

P.S. Are you friends with Augie? I think he is located out that way. He might know something about that fishery.

I am thinking that was the Mo Dept of Conservation that will stock spoonbill in your lake as long as they can come back and harvest them at some point for the eggs for hatching purposes I do believe, I am thinking it is illegal for an individual to sell the roe. I am not to sure tho. maybe if you raised them in your own pond it might be different.

All the really good ideas I've ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.