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Fish Supplies
Following
the successful rearing of small carp in 2004, I have been involved in
joint,carp-rearing exercises with several clients.
The carp are stocked as young individuals that are born in late January in the state-of-the-art coldwater fish hatchery at Rodbaston College, near Stafford. The parents are carp from Orchid Lakes, near Abingdon, and the Carp Society’s Horseshoe Lake, near Lechlade – both venues known for specimen fish to 40lb+.
The fish are 50:50 commons and mirrors, with a high percentage of fully-scaled mirrors. They are characterised by the red tinge to the edges of the lower fins, a coloration which becomes more pronounced with age. The carp look fantastic and are as fat as butter.
They have the capability for extremely fast growth: some of the 2004 fish weighed over 20lb at just four years of age (see picture), and they have the potential to grow to 30lb+ within 6-7 years!
The carp are fed during the spring and summer on a complete, specialist carp pellet diet in ponds protected by anti-predators nets and overhead wires.
Late Winter 2011
Some of these clients now have fish for sale, with harvesting in February and March 2011. If you are interested in any of these fish, please contact me.
1. Rob Stephens at Sion Farm, Worcestershire) has been growing on a group of these fish, obtained as small individuals in late spring 2008. The fish have been held in a dedicated growing-on pond containing no other fish, under anti-predator netting. They have been fed by hand and not subject to any angling.
The fish for sale – preferably in one batch - comprise:-
- 100 carp x 5lbs each (spring 2008 offspring) at £7.00/lb
2. Chay Jackson has fish from the same source that he has been growing for the last 10 months in fish-farming ponds near Nuneaton, in Warwickshire. They consist of:-
- 250 x 5lb carp (actually cropped from Sion Farm as two-pounders early last spring) @ £7.00/lb
- 4000 x 6oz carp (bought as fry from Rodbaston in April 2010 and now 13 months old) @ £6.50/lb
3. The purchaser of some of my original fish (some six years ago) - Chris Manifold at Lana Springs in Devon - has since bred from these fish and is selling the excess as he builds up his stocks ahead of offering the full range of sizes for sale.
Moreover, Chris has hand-reared the carp, which have not been mixed with ANY other carp or, indeed, other coarse fish, and they are health-checked regularly.
You will see what the fish look like in the many photos on Chris’s website – here:
All of photos can be enlarged by clicking on them. The appearance of the fish is identical to those listed earlier as they originated from the same batch of parents.
Contact:
Dr Bruno Broughton
Broughton Fishery Technologies Ltd.
Tel: 01952 691515; Email: bruno.broughton@virgin.net
