re: Adding crawfish to supplement a pond

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Hybrid bream were what I was recommended.

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You weren’t recommended this by a professional fishery biologist that works in small pond/lake management, unless he/she miss understood your management objectives. There is a use for them but not as you described in your objectives for the pond.

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I’ve read coppernosw have to constantly be stocked.

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Nothing could further from the truth. You didn’t read this any state agency or land grant university recreational pond management manual. Whoever wrote or stated this clearly didn’t know what they were talking about.

But work the best with what you have, you are on the board asking questions so you are obviously trying to manage the pond correctly. But sounds like with your Uncle doing what he thinks best without any biological basis for his actions you are just going to have to live with the consequences of his actions and hope for the best down the road

But at the end of the day, if in 2 or 3 years you can go catch some fish out the pond and have a good and fun time doing so, then that’s what’s it’s all about.