Raising Fish

[lokidog]

Stocker trout... bleh!  I think I'd rather eat coyote again.    Tilapia, on the other hand, taste really good, like a really big bluegill or crappie.  We used to catch them in the irrigation canals in So Cal. and snarfed them up.  I have a 15X4 foot pool, might have to try it.

[singleshot12]

The thing about Tilapia is they are easy to grow and they grow super fast for the amount of feed they are givin. I've eaten good tasting Tilapia and bad tasting Tilapia. I think alot of it has to due with water quality and what you feed them. I read somewhere once set up the cost is only pennies per pound for meat harvested.

[ICEMAN]

I imagine that cost would go way up out here in the northwest.... The farms I have read of were way south....way warmer and even some of them heated water...

[singleshot12]

I might go with an indoor plastic tank set up at first,nothing too big,just enough for personal use.

[xd2005]

I have a book called Back to Basics that discusses fish farming. It mentions using a pool, but does note to make sure the water is clean and aerated. One thing it mentions is to try raising trout in the winter (cool months, since they like temps in mid-50's) and catfish in the summer (they like temps between 80 and 90).

It's something I would love to try, if I actually had much of a backyard.