Stocking rates Initial channel catfish stocking rate usually is 100 fingerlings per surface acre (i.e., 10 per 1/10 acre) in ponds that are not fed or fed inconsistently. Channel catfish grow fine ...

Initially, you can stock your pond or lake with channel catfish at a ratio of around 100 fingerlings per acre if you also have bass and sunfish, or you can use more catfish per acre if that’s ...

He helped stock the original blue catfish fingerlings in 2022 around Point State Park. He isn’t aware of anyone catching any of them yet. “It takes several years,” he said for the fish to ...

Around 45% of catfish fingerlings die as a result of infectious diseases. Fish in general are also becoming less resistant to antibiotics. Although consumers may be uncomfortable with the idea of ...

Last year, 18,000 blue catfish fingerlings were stocked. Also stocked were 30,000 advanced fingerlings and 50,000 fingerlings of largemouth bass and 33,000 hybrid striped bass fingerlings.

Nulph said he and his fishing partners normally catch 5-pound to 10-pound catfish. “It’s surreal to be a part of this,” he said while helping to stock the fingerlings around Point State Park.

The economic impact of ESC in the catfish fingerling industry ranges between $10 million and $17 million annually. Since 2019, an experimental vaccine developed by scientists in the university’s ...

Catfish does not have scales. But other fish types find catfish delicious and fishermen use its fingerlings as bait in deep waters of Lake Victoria. That is how Joel Aduma reaps big from his ...

The advanced fingerlings, 6-12 inches, that were stocked were blue catfish, channel catfish and muskellunge. Stockings of ...