Table 4. Fertilization table for silver carp stocking in pond
    Basal fertilizer After stocking
(kg/ha) (kg/ha)
Larvae Organic fertilizer+soybean slurry 3-4 days before stocking Soybean slurry: 15-45 kg/d
(<1.6�2.3cm) Grass: 3 000�3 750
  Animal manure: 1 875�2 250
  Inorganic fertilizer 20 days before stocking Once every 2�3 days
ammonium sulphate: 37.5�75 mmonium sulphate: 22.5
Cacium superphosphate: 37.5 Cacium superphosphate: 3.75
  (Should be dissolved completely before fertilizing)
  Total fertilizer should be around 487.5 kg mmonium sulphate and 337.5kg cacium superphosphate
  Animal manure 7 days before stocking 3 days after stocking
11 250 900 kg/ha
  4�5 days after stocking: 150 kg/ha/d
   
  Soybean slurry No fertilizer 2�3 hr after stocking
22.5�30 kg soybean
Fingerling     Once every 7�10days
(< 3.3�5 cm) 1 500 kg grass manure
  Soybean 1.5�2kg/10 000 fingerlings and increase to 2.5�4 kg
Data source: Cai (1987)