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Fall:
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Disc the pond bottoms and
plant rye grass
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Spring:
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Clean out the pond bottoms by mowing and picking rocks
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Before filling main pond spread
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1.
1,500 lbs of soybean meal
2.
300 lbs of
Milorganite (provides
food for
Daphnia)
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Before filling feed pond spread
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1.
100 lbs of soybean meal
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Day 1-3
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Fill the ponds with water. (Cost: $10/per hour to run the pump)
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Day 5-8
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Plant 320,000 walleye fry and monitor the health of the fish until they are harvested.
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Planting day plus 12 to 36 days |
Monitor the health of the pond and the fish. Measure concentration of
Daphnia, if lacking transport Daphnia from the Ludington Waste Water
Treatment Plant |
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Planting day plus 20 days
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Spread 800 lbs of soybean
meal by boat in the main pond. Use a
spreader mounted on the bow of the boat to get good distribution. Drag chains along bottom in order to
stir up clay into water column.
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Planting day plus 27 days
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Spread 700 lbs of soybean
meal as above.
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Planting day plus 34 days
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Drain the feed pond into
the main pond as needed to provide food for the fry.
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Planting day plus 40-46 days
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Harvest walleye fingerlings
using Fyke nets.
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After harvest
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Drain the ponds.
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