The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Pundyburn Lynn on September 04, 2013, 04:27:26 pm
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In connection to my previous post - 'Smallholding, Planning Permission, and Living in the Country', I have been approached about some land with a large-ish area of water. Does anyone have any experience of farming fish??
Lynn :-)
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relatively for the work involved the profit is limited unless you are doing it on a huge scale...
freshwater if its big enough you would be better off looking at running a fishing lake, there is money in that if you get good advice from someone local to you...
most commercially viable fish farming is done in salt water!!!
if you have a large eastern European population near you there may be a market for carp for the table...
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I used to manage trout farms.
The one I started off on only produced 12t/annum on a boreole/surface mounted pump (6" pipe) scenario. The way that they made money was by adding value - we had a smokery, went to farmers markets etc.
If you only had static water, you could try farming coarse fish for restocking, or koi etc. There are possibilities....
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here is a nice little fish farm up for sale,
http://www.thesmallholdingcentre.co.uk/property.php?id=350 (http://www.thesmallholdingcentre.co.uk/property.php?id=350)