RE: What Do You Know Today That You Didn't Know Yesterday?
January 15, 2020 at 6:37 am
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2020 at 6:40 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It takes 300-500gpm, minimum, to culture trout in a conventional raceway system. Full scale commercial production requires between 1k-2kgpm. The average yield is 20-40lbs of fish per gpm per year. They can be stocked in ponds, so long as largemouth bass aren't present, at a rate of 1200 fish per acre. Additionally (and only in the winter) they can be raised in suspended cages or pens at a rate of 6 fish per foot of cubic volume. Between USFWS KDFWR, and the few reamining private industries, approx 700k lb of trout are produced in the state. Largely at wolf creek damn, mostly for recreational fishing, with a consumption advisory. More than 500 suitable natural sites for production sit unused in eastern KY, abandoned deep coal mines. More than 75% of the trout consumed in the state, come from Idaho.
In order to capture -just- the uncontested market share of this one species and just for processing, a paltry $4mil...an additional 100kgpm, per year, of fresh clean water between 55 and 68 f would have to be supplied. For context, the rate of flow at the nearest highland impoundment to me, supplied by an 8,728km2 reservoir....3500gpm. It's incapable of producing the desired temperature range. They have a small trout raceway beneath that relies on supplemental cooling, which stocks the licking river.
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