Afew years ago I saw a story, not sure if in Countryside or not, about this family in Texas who were raising fish in an above ground swimming pool. At the time I thought good idea and committed it to memory.

Well guess what? I just lucked into a 24ft. round above ground pool for free, all I had to do was take it apart. Everything works fine. We don't need a pool but that memory I had logged years ago popped up.

Anybody know anything that will help me out? Books? Links? etc.

Thanks--Ed

-- Ed (not@any.more), March 21, 2001

Answers

Read through the threads in the Aquaculture category under Older Threads. Some good information there.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), March 21, 2001.

Reader's Digest "Back to basics", 1981 edition has a nice chapter on this.We are thinking of raising catfish this summer in our "pond' which used to be an inground pool.Since we are in Alabama, this is quite feasible..they like warm water.If you cannot get the info you need, please e-mail me and I will send you the info..it's only a few pages long. God bless.

-- Lesley (martchas@bellsouth.net), March 21, 2001.

Sorry didn't see aquaculture.

-- Ed (not@any.more), March 21, 2001.

Rodale Press has a book on home fish farming in above ground pools. I have the old edition...they have an updated one now. Go to their website to order it.

-- Deborah Bauderer (bearwaoman@Yahoo.com), March 22, 2001.

My father's a shrimp and fish farmer. He stays pretty busy nowadays just doing consulting work for people who want to do this on all scale levels all over the world. I am sure he'd be happy to help give you pointers as we did this (fish and shrimp in above ground pools) when I was growing up. I'll have to send his email to you personally though.

-- Sonya (clb@watervalley.net), March 22, 2001.

Ed,

Talipia!

A member of the Carp family so it has many bones, flavor sweet like trout, but meat isn't as firm as trout. I would compare the meat to that of catfish sort of mushy but by no means does it even taste close to catfish.

Talipia does wonderful in a pond situation, the Epcot (sp?) Center (a division of Disney) raises them for their Hydroponics facility, and serves them in a couple of restaurants.

-- westbrook (westbrook@qnet.com), March 22, 2001.