(The fish pictured is 5 years old, one which I supplied at C2 and it's in a mixed fishery fed on our feeds)
I used to think that the fast breakdown would be wasted, fouling the water or just consumed by nuisance species. Let me explain how I changed my opinion and how that allowed me to improve the health of my fish against what 'experts' advised.
Sure, the non-target species will eat the broken down feed, that's not disputed. What I WILL dispute is that it's naive to believe you can maintain a healthy population of a single species they're all susceptible to the same health issues, so we need to care for the whole fish population.
Feeding a food item too big for other species to eat is avoiding the elephant in the room.
You want to starve the non target species?
Is that a sensible resolve?
Do you think it's possible to have a starving population of silvers co-existing with a happy population of well fed carp?
A high biomass is a high biomass, species is irrelevant.
When I re-framed my concerns about fast breakdown pellets encouraging a nuisance population, into understanding that i'm feeding a product which is consumed and digestible to all levels of the aquatic food chain, there's no wonder everything began to grow and thrive together.
The biggest part to understand about feeding the balance of an ecosystem is this... If an organism thrives, it will quickly exhaust it's food supply... so we supplement it. For example, If bacteria thrive on a food source, they multiply, exhaust the food supply and crash. If daphnia thrive, they multiply, exhaust their food supply and crash. If algae thrives, they multiply, they exhaust their food supply and crash. Stay consistent with your supplementary feeding keep the system thriving. A healthy functioning ecosystem is the engine and feed is the fuel.
Your job title as 'fishery manager' involves balancing the species to suit your target as a fishery. Remember, it's called 'FISHERY management' not 'carp management'.
Took 8mm active8 that I’d coated for a few days to a local club water.just the one bait along with 2mm pellets for the method feeder. 2 hours 30 mins fishing 11 carp ranging from 7-14lb 5.30pm 8pm fishing. It’ll be in my cheesepaste mix come the autumn for my river chub campaign. Excellent product.
Only one gripe , 3 of the bags were damaged and pellets over the back of the delivery vehicle, would of happened in transit I’m guessing, but otherwise very good 👍👍👍
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