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Has anyone tried there hand at small scale fish farming.

mamos

Fresh water or sea?

I've quite a bit of experience with salmon and the main problem is that all the bodies concerned and there are lots of them here in Scotland but I'm sure it's the same with you don't differentiate between a couple of dozen fish and a million so you still need to go through all the hoops presented you by SEPA, RPB, local councils and the Crown Estate commissioners and the SEPA application alone will cost thousands for a bottom survey, tidal stream surveys, environmental impact assessment etc. Which is a shame because for anyone living by the sea a small 5m x 5m cage could easily be managed by one person and with just a couple of dozen fish in would be free from lice and disease. As far as fresh water goes they'd still need to be in some kind of cage so you could catch them you'd need a good exchange of water but would still have to fill in lots of forms and part with loads of dosh

Good Luck, Paul

Thanks Paul

That all seems a bit over the top. I only wanted a fish pond with a few fish in it

Oh well, back to the chopping board

mamos

mamos wrote:That all seems a bit over the top. I only wanted a fish pond with a few fish in it.

I've not tried it, but I believe it is not difficult. Didn't HFW do a bit about it on his fish series?

There was a brilliant one which combined a watercress farm with trout. The water flows through the cress & picks up lots of little critturs that live in the roots.
The trout eat the critturs and pee in the water, which goes back to the cress as fertiliser.

The other, I think was carp. You basically chuck manure in the pond on a regular basis, and take out fish on a regular basis.

I have not done it but I hear its comparatively easy to keep Carp.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/335354 ... -pond.html