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Met a new dad today at school, started talking it turns out he owns a trout farm, he breeds the trout for fisheries. Explained that we are looking for a few acres for a smallholding and that I planned digging a pond and stock it with trout. He told me the best thing would be to get a few breeding trout. As the fish he normally sells to fisheries are heat treated as eggs to make them sterile so they grow quicker.
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Useful tip. Have you considered carp as a food option plus any large fish could be sold to fisheries
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Large carp take a long time to grow. rather have a large shoal of smaller fish roach rudd trout etc than a few big fish.
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Sounds like he is the guy to get your breeding pair of trout from. Keep in with him.
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Don't worry SD I will be keeping in with him not only for the fish but information as well.
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