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Does Well Water Harm Pond Environments?

Small pond owners get creative during scorching summer months to save treasured waters and fish. Many successfully solve the challenge supplementing water levels with wells. If you're considering such measures, co ...

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Jordan Winery Bass Strategy

By Bob Lusk Wines are fascinating. Actually, I learned a valuable fisheries lesson at a wine tasting years ago, as strange as that may sound. In upstate New York, a ...

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What Is Rotenone?

If a pond has been neglected for many years, or requires complete renovation, the only option may be cleaning the slate and restocking. When such projects arise, the first procedure ...

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I See Red Spots On My Fish

Are you seeing red spots on fish? Those spots could be grub worms. Here's how they arrived in the pond and how to manage their population.  Fish grubs are immature forms of ...

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Bob Lusk

Bob Lusk, Fisheries Biologist A Pioneer of the Pond Management Business Bob Lusk graduated from Texas A&M’s Wildlife and Fisheries department December, 1979 and leased a fish farm ...

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