. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Farming fish in your own backyard—the basics Photo by Neil Caudle. A tilapia raised at Sea Grant's Aquaculture Demonstration Project Backyard aquaculture can be as simple as stocking a farm pond with catfish, bream and bass for harvest with a hook and line. Or, with time and money to invest, fish can be raised in backyard pools or greenhouses, using the methods of intensive culture. Backyard aquaculture is a fledgling enterprise in the United States. Private research companies like the Rodale Research Inst
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Farming fish in your own backyard—the basics Photo by Neil Caudle. A tilapia raised at Sea Grant's Aquaculture Demonstration Project Backyard aquaculture can be as simple as stocking a farm pond with catfish, bream and bass for harvest with a hook and line. Or, with time and money to invest, fish can be raised in backyard pools or greenhouses, using the methods of intensive culture. Backyard aquaculture is a fledgling enterprise in the United States. Private research companies like the Rodale Research Institute, the New Alchemy Institute and the Foundation for Self-Sufficiency are sponsoring small-scale aquaculture research and making inroads into reducing its costs. At UNC Sea Grant's Aquaculture Demonstration Project in Aurora, scientists are studying small-scale and commercial aquaculture, using eels, yellow perch, tilapia, rainbow trout and other species. On a large-scale, commercial basis, two fishes, trout and catfish, are prov- ing to be excellent culture species. Both are grown commercially in North Carolina. North Carolina's cold-water mountain streams make an excellent habitat for trout. Already 35 commer- cial, full-time trout farms are operating in this state, making it the second largest trout-farming state behind Idaho. There are 50 catch-out ponds where the public pays to fish for trout. "I think North Carolina has the greatest potential for (trout) growth," says Charles Johnson, fishery training specialist for Haywood Technical College. "We have the benefit in that we have a better growing season because we have very little weather when the fish don't ; Trout grow best in waters between 38°F and 70°F, the normal range of water tem- peratures in the North Carolina moun- tains, Johnson says. Johnny Foster of the Aquaculture Demonstration Project says that it ap- pears rainbow fingerlings can be raised in North Carolina's coastal waters
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