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Fishing for a complementary use of fire reservoir ponds

Fishing for a complementary use of fire reservoir ponds


href="#a"> By Peter Kerr for sticK

(sticK - 28 January 2016 ) Years ago for a farm management report at Lincoln University, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek plan around the integration of goldfish in troughs on dairy farms (we'd spotted the use of such technology to help keep the troughs clean).

Well here's a huge expansion on this idea, one that's taken my fancy...this time utilising water ponds kept on hand by forestry companies in case they ever need to fight a fire.


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