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OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 7:27 pm Post subject: Grow your own Fish?
After watching HFW and the plight of sea fish I was wondering if someone, somewhere grows their own in a pond/tank/whatever in the garden? Whats possible? Any links to websites would be useful... (Apologies if its covered somewhere else)

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 7:33 pm Post subject:
Not yet, have the land but not got round to seriously thinking about digging a pond/lake. There's a couple of old threads that might be useful: https://forum.downsizer.net/about45720.html https://forum.downsizer.net/about27602.html

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 7:38 pm Post subject:
smallest unit i have seen was a pond about 3 by 5 meters fed by a clean stream ,2 m deep ,maybe 200 trout on pellets like battery chooks protect the river and harvest when it is sensible carp ponds work for me as the critters like pals and lots of grub trout like to be alone

dpack

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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 7:39 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Not yet, have the land but not got round to seriously thinking about digging a pond/lake.

There's a couple of old threads that might be useful:

https://forum.downsizer.net/about45720.html
https://forum.downsizer.net/about27602.html

are either of those farming with dynamite ?

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 7:46 pm Post subject:
Aquaponics

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 7:47 pm Post subject:

dpack wrote:

Treacodactyl wrote:

are either of those farming with dynamite ?

Nope, but it's covered on page nine

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 7:52 pm Post subject:
You can fish with dynamite as well as farm.

dpack

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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 11 7:54 pm Post subject:
a good pond is an asset ,a bad one is piscine hell

OtleyLad

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
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Location: Otley, West Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 11 10:46 am Post subject:
Thanks for the replies/links, etc - And I have a new word: 'Aquaponics', to impress my friends

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 11 12:35 pm Post subject:
Aquaponics is growing fast in Asia, the USA & Australia. Loads of videos on U-tube. Not so big in UK/Europe. I think it's probably because our native species aren't so suited to the system.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 11 12:46 pm Post subject:
Things like perch are much easier to farm than trout and are generally much more sustainable since they are herbivores. At its simplest, all you need do is get a pond and chuck suitable fertiliser (manure) in it.

Tavascarow

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Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 11 12:52 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Things like perch are much easier to farm than trout and are generally much more sustainable since they are herbivores.

At its simplest, all you need do is get a pond and chuck suitable fertiliser (manure) in it.

Our native perch is carnivorous.
Carp would probably be a better bet for aquaponics but I'm not sure whether they would cope with the higher stocking rates the system tends to use.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 11 1:01 pm Post subject:

Tavascarow wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

Our native perch is carnivorous.
Carp would probably be a better bet...

You are right. I didn't mean perch, but I can't think what I did mean.

Carp are pretty good, but I think I was thinking of something else.

Tilapia are supposed to be about the best, but only if you're somewhere a fair bit warmer.

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