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May 12, 2011 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Houston tx
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Need help making fish emulsion
I've got a place on Lake Livingston (90 miles north of Houston) and the shad are coming to the bulkheads to lay eggs and it's possible to use a cast net and fill up 5 gallon buckets of them in one morning. Does anyone know how to make a fish emulsion using the shad? We've been putting them in gallon zip lock bags and will use them for chum this summer offshore but if I knew what to do I would like to try and make some fish fertilizer.
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Tomatovillian™
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Location: Tulsa, OK
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May 12, 2011 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Not really sure if the time effort and stink would be of any greater benefit to you then just rigging something up so that you could irrigate with the lake water. The lake water itself would make a great fertilizer as it contains fish poop and is already ready to go. You might have to check and see if there are any regulations that would prevent you from pumping the lake water into your garden.
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Tomatovillian™
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May 12, 2011 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2010
Location: The great state of Texas
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Hey bonefish, If I may, I would like to add a little something to this thread.
I worked at a marina on Toledo bend for about three years during the late 90's. A local guy by the name of Paul Hinton would come by and get all our fish heads from the fish cleaning station during the spring. I wish I knew his processing methods, but what I do know is he had HUGE plants with fruits that were very impressive. I hope y'all are able to utilize the fish for fertilizer. Sorry for hijacking your thread. |
May 12, 2011 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Littlerock, CA
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fish emulsion is made from the waste products processing fish. basically fish minus meat, maybe minus fat as well, depending on the source. You could always just put the fish in your compost pile for many of the benefits. Some people put fish guts, heads, bones etc in the bottom of the hole when they plant a plant.
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May 12, 2011 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2010
Location: So. Illinois (6a)
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We had the shad up against the shore on our little lake just the other day. I wonder how it is timed given that the spawn happened at around the same time in Texas and Illinois?
Anyway, I hope my tomatoes were able to suck up some of what the shad were spraying. Come to think of it they are looking pretty healthy... Here are some before and after photos about a week apart. |
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Tomatovillian™
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May 13, 2011 | #9 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Tucson
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My dad just buried his fish leftovers in the garden under the plants. Seeing as I live in the desert, I don't fish much. (there are places to fish, but I just don't). His plants LOVED it. Huge plants all summer long.
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May 14, 2011 | #10 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Pleasure Island, NC 8a
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My Dad & I used to scoop shad out of the Potomac under the cherry blossoms at night. We would pack the roe on ice & Bury the males & the bodies of the females in the garden. Had the best garden in NW DC... other than our neighbors in their 90s we had the ONLY vegetable garden in the neighborhood (before gardening was cool & after the Victory garden push).
I still bury fish viscera in the garden if I can't take it to the pigs (Mr. July & Mr. October) in the country an hour away. |
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