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From: Deborah Byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:46 AM
Subject: Tilapia
Hello all fishy people,
We are in drought in the land of Aus and
farm water storages drying up fast, last week while pumping the last of a
small farm dam (pond) to cart water for sheep we discovered some fish -
escapees from a larger storage up the chain that we stocked in 1996 . We
took 8 really nice golden perch (aussie natives) one of the premier table
fish in this part of the world, averaging 3kg each live - worth about
$40 -$60 each in the city fish markets - the water was teeming with life
including a couple of crayfish and bucketfuls of guppie type small fish,
insects etc - and the fish fat - obviously plenty of food in this small
water (about 20 meters X 10 ). My brother has a fish farm commercial scale
but he can't farm these fish as they wont take pellet feed, that would be my
advice to anyone wanting to have some fish as a sideline - grow a top
quality variety that wont eat crap food - at least then when you harvest you
have something special.
Cheers all
Lloyd Charles
