Post by esshup on May 6, 2016 23:52:57 GMT -5
Thanks! I will try and address your questions to the best of my knowledge.
I am going to do some research on this prior to posting an answer to make sure I give the correct information according to statute. However, the 'officer' side in me has a very peaked curiosity on this issue. While I find the answer to your question, can you provide me some insight as to the following?
1. Why not just buy crappie from a fish hatchery at a reasonable price?
2. I have caught fish from state waters as well as private ponds. Quite frankly, they look very similar to one another. How does he plan on identifying one fish from another?
3. If a person has a more convenient way (purchasing from a hatchery) as well as being a less questionable method versus a method that is potentially less convenient as well as more of a 'gray' area, why not complete the activity utilizing the first method?
I will get an answer to your question. As I stated, sometimes the circumstances of particular situations causes by curiosity to be activated.
1) While the price per fish from the hatchery is pretty low, there are no hatcheries relatively close and to have the fish delivered usually means a $200 to $250 minimum order. He is putting 10-20 fish in a 1/10 acre pond. 6"-8" fish are the largest that are supplied by a hatchery, at $6/fish, and he wants to have them pull off a spawn this year. Those 6"-8" fish will most likely need another year of growth before they can pull off a successful spawn. Catching adult fish now, he can sex Males and Females; Immature Crappie are durn impossible to sex, just like Largemouth Bass.
2) As soon as the fish spawn and the eggs hatch, he will pull a seine thru the pond and remove the 10-20 adult fish that were caught in state waters. The only fish left in the pond will be the Young of the Year. There are no other fish in the pond except some Fathead Minnows. Since the parents do not care for the young, they serve no purpose to stay in the pond, and they could prey on their offspring if the forage fish population in the pond starts to decline. He is going to try and feed train the young, and feed them commercial fish pellets.
3) a) He can rub two nickels together and get a dollars worth of change. b) He is under the assumption that the method that he wants to use is 100% legal providing he removes all the adults post spawn.
I agree with you 110%!!!! He buys fingerling trout (Brook and Brown Trout) and raises them for 2 years to get them to saleable size (to taxidermists for competition mounts, and also raises Yellow Perch and Bluegills. All those fish were originally purchased from a hatchery, but now he spawns them and raises them himself.
I am going to do some research on this prior to posting an answer to make sure I give the correct information according to statute. However, the 'officer' side in me has a very peaked curiosity on this issue. While I find the answer to your question, can you provide me some insight as to the following?
1. Why not just buy crappie from a fish hatchery at a reasonable price?
2. I have caught fish from state waters as well as private ponds. Quite frankly, they look very similar to one another. How does he plan on identifying one fish from another?
3. If a person has a more convenient way (purchasing from a hatchery) as well as being a less questionable method versus a method that is potentially less convenient as well as more of a 'gray' area, why not complete the activity utilizing the first method?
I will get an answer to your question. As I stated, sometimes the circumstances of particular situations causes by curiosity to be activated.
1) While the price per fish from the hatchery is pretty low, there are no hatcheries relatively close and to have the fish delivered usually means a $200 to $250 minimum order. He is putting 10-20 fish in a 1/10 acre pond. 6"-8" fish are the largest that are supplied by a hatchery, at $6/fish, and he wants to have them pull off a spawn this year. Those 6"-8" fish will most likely need another year of growth before they can pull off a successful spawn. Catching adult fish now, he can sex Males and Females; Immature Crappie are durn impossible to sex, just like Largemouth Bass.
2) As soon as the fish spawn and the eggs hatch, he will pull a seine thru the pond and remove the 10-20 adult fish that were caught in state waters. The only fish left in the pond will be the Young of the Year. There are no other fish in the pond except some Fathead Minnows. Since the parents do not care for the young, they serve no purpose to stay in the pond, and they could prey on their offspring if the forage fish population in the pond starts to decline. He is going to try and feed train the young, and feed them commercial fish pellets.
3) a) He can rub two nickels together and get a dollars worth of change. b) He is under the assumption that the method that he wants to use is 100% legal providing he removes all the adults post spawn.
I agree with you 110%!!!! He buys fingerling trout (Brook and Brown Trout) and raises them for 2 years to get them to saleable size (to taxidermists for competition mounts, and also raises Yellow Perch and Bluegills. All those fish were originally purchased from a hatchery, but now he spawns them and raises them himself.