Durable HDPE Fish Pond Liner – Long-Lasting Protection for Aquaculture & Water Storage
How to Harvest Using Pond Draining ( “Limas” ) Last month, we harvested our remaining fish stock toward the last part of the cropping season. In addition to the usual “kalokor” (harvest method using net), we did a complete draining ( “limas” in Pangasinense ) of one of my smaller ponds. That is, we totally removed the water from the pond. The pond contains some bangus, tilapia, and a few tiger prawns at the time. It was in the middle of the dry season and water level has been receding to dangerously low levels. Pond draining was a preemptive move designed to save the prawns which are vulnerable to severe “ tangok ” (fish kill or stress due to low dissolved oxygen in the pond) in this kind of weather and season. We also wanted to rid the pond of competitor fish like tilapia and burrowing predators such as mudfish (“ dalag ” in Tagalog, " gele-gele " in Pangasinense) before the start of the next cropping year. Pond draining allows the fish farmer to pre...