Fish??

K.B. · #21 11/29/12, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by haypoint

I'm close to Lake Superior and that water is some of the cleanest in the world, and cold. Suckers that live in Lake Superior, go up small streams in the spring to spawn. Easy to catch then. They can be caned with a touch of vinegar and the bones desolve just like canned salmon. I'd never eat a sucker from any other location.
The local Natives can fish the Great Lakes without restrictions and I can buy Whitefish or Lake Perch for a buck a pound, in the round, from them.

Sounds delicious!

Unfortunately, I grew up eating suckers from rivers in the middle of the lower peninsula... can only imagine how much dioxin and other goodies I ate with all those. The perch from Lake Huron and salmon from Lake Michigan were probably not too pure either, but they tasted good!

Riverdale · #22 12/01/12, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by BACOG

Anybody raising them on their homestead? Any tips?

I thought of doing it here but the land would be very hard to put a pond on. So the only alternative would be to raise them in a tank. It could be done I guess.

The most important iformation is left out.

What state are you in? What aquaponics work for me in central Michigan (yellow perch and hybred Bluegill) might not work for you. Just like tillapia will get me in trouble in Michigan (legally).

rwinsouthla · #23 12/01/12, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by dancingfatcat

Theirs a guy on another site that does this. He grows fish in barrels and uses the water for his garden on a continuous filtering cycle. Pretty amazing stuff. I'll see if I can his site and post it for you.

Still takes electricity (for pumps and growlights), water (evaporation, leaks), and fish food to feed the fish. In hydroponics, you feed the fish, they poo and give you nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium for your plants.

Harvesting fish from a natural source is cheapest. Second cheapest is a pond that is big enough that it needs no food or fingerlings.

Riverdale · #24 12/01/12, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by haypoint

I'm close to Lake Superior and that water is some of the cleanest in the world, and cold. Suckers that live in Lake Superior, go up small streams in the spring to spawn. Easy to catch then. They can be caned with a touch of vinegar and the bones desolve just like canned salmon. I'd never eat a sucker from any other location.
The local Natives can fish the Great Lakes without restrictions and I can buy Whitefish or Lake Perch for a buck a pound, in the round, from them.

Smoke 'em just a bit, and that makes the suckers a lot tastier.

One of the things I miss from moving 'down south' (Gratiot county), I'm not 20 minutes from a lake anymore, and have no commercial fishing contanct less than 2 hours away......

Mallow · #25 12/03/12, 05:06 PM

We grew out 50 rainbow trout in a 6 foot concrete stock tank last fall. We aerate with a solar pump and fed twice a day. This year we are doing a filtration system and 100 trout. The spring that supplies the water is about 20gpm during winter and spring.

Mallow

dkhern · #26 12/03/12, 07:02 PM

have a little over 4 a when full have catfish (stocked) bream and bass stocked naturally via water birds lol buy 20# fathead minnows each spring and release will spawn 5-6 times/yr unless eaten. fish morn and evening catfish will spawn when reach 5-6 # if have something to go into like log or pipe bream and bass spawn at will bream and minnow are bass and catfish food till get larger

sandc · #27 12/06/12, 11:05 AM

aquaculture by itself can become a costly endeavor unless you already have a pond or other holding tank in place. Aquaponics can be costly to set up if you don't already have a greenhouse in place or live somewhere where you can set most of it up outdoors, but once running the return on fish and fresh veggies is pretty good. I have seen systems with two of the 275 gallon tote containers return 250lbs of fish in a year, both tilapia and yellow perch as well as red crayfish. These same systems produced tons of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, basil, dill, blueberries and blackberries in great abundance compared to a regular garden. Over the winter I am helping revamp the system to 4 400 gallon tanks in a larger greenhouse where the owner is going to be growing a larger amount of herbs and lettuces along with the previous vegetables to supply two restaurants as well as two families and probably anything I want for mine as well for supplying help when he needs it.