Aquaponics

[smilingcat]

I haven't seen it anywhere on the internet is PERMITS. And I'm curious.

Last thing I need is to have Dept. of Fish and Game fine me. and those fines tend to be much bigger than anything you can collect from driving a car. So did you get or do you need a permit for tillapia, yellow perch?

I'm sure I would need to get a permit from ODFW (Oregon Dept. of Fish and Game). Tillapia, yellow perch are not native. Trout is generally have very tight control. And if I were to go and catch invasive specie like crayfish now found in some lakes might actually be worse. We have a very strict aquatic invasive species regulation and penalties are enough to crush you financially. I prefer to grow yellow perch cause its good eats. More so than Tillapia in my books.

 

[Snowypinesridge]

Permits are a definate issue. In Oregon, when we lived there, the state was always wanting to over regulate farms, this was one of the reasons we left. In Washington to be legal you have to be inspected and pay a $250 dollar tax on all "ponds" (which, I am sure every person pays). If I put goldfish in they don't care. But if its bass, perch, crawdads, etc they get more involved. You would think it would be different since they are native and gold fish are not. When we were featured in Mother Earth News we had "special test goldfish" that were in for a very short time...Now we have true gold fish for the winter.....

 

[Snowypinesridge]

We have close to 2 feet of snow on top of the green house now...I am amazed the thing is still standing. Not bad for only spending a hundred bucks on a used green house! While everything is nearly dead there are a couple of survivors. Here is a link to some of our pics:

http://www.snowypinesridge.com/

 

[erinszoo]

Just found this thread. We've been looking into doing this for a couple of years but have one major problem, we don't know where to find the fish. We'd like to use tilapia or fresh water shrimp or trout because those are the fish we like to eat but everywhere we've found that sells them sells them by the thousands. Any suggestions where to look?

 

[Snowypinesridge]

Fish are one of those critters that I admit are sometimes hard to find. Normally you can't go onto craigslist and find them. Although I did prove myself wrong today when I saw a local craigslist ad advertising tilapia. I am guessing that since you are in the south east catfish farms are more abundant than trout. Tilapia on the other hand should be pretty abundant. I just googled Oklahoma tilapia and this looks like a good source even for me:

http://www.oda.state.ok.us/ais/ais-aqua.pdf

I would call them and arrange a "field trip" and see if you can just buy what you need while there...Otherwise you might just buy a thousand, take what you need, and sell the rest as bait for the local fishermen or feed the rest to your poultry stock....Good Luck!

 

[Grateful1]

I just began investigating aquaponics, and living in the Salem wanted to find a good source for fish reasonably close. Since I too had some concern about ODFW restrictions, I was delighted to find that they actually publish a list of licensed fish sellers. Most of the varieties are suitable for aquaponics from what I have been reading.

Here is a link: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/fishing/docs/licensed_operators_who_have_fish_for_sale.pdf

Since this list is published by dfw, I imagine that purchasing from any of them for an aquaponics system would be fine.

All the best to you!

 

[echabert]

Hello, I know this is an old post but I too am in St. Tammany and considering starting in aquaponics. I am happy to see your post about Talapia being ok as long as it's indoors. This changes my plans tremendously. I would love to speak with you more about the local farming & aquaponics setup you have had success with and maybe some pointers you can give me...? please drop me a private message if you can help out with a little information. THANKS!

 

[AlabamaSweetpea]

really nice pond. I'm sure it being in the ground and lined with cinder blocks helps to maintain the water temperature. Where are you going to find Malaysian freshwater prawns?

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

really nice pond. I'm sure it being in the ground and lined with cinder blocks helps to maintain the water temperature. Where are you going to find Malaysian freshwater prawns?

Thanks! It really does help maintain a moderate temperature in the system, maybe a bit too much. While it seldom gets below 50 in the winter, it takes forever to heat up in the summer and never gets above 87. This lower temperature range kinda put a halt on getting the shrimp until I can separate the systems out to get a higher water temperature at an earlier time in the summer. You can get the prawns here or at one of their local distributorships nearer to your location.

 

[WaterFarm1234]

Are you still doing AP in St. Tammany? I'm in Abita Springs