Follow every stocking lot from seed delivery to harvest through ponds, feed and water readings.

A farm holds several ponds, tanks or cages at different stages. Each was stocked from a different seed delivery on a different day, and each is fed, sampled and treated on its own pattern. The numbers that matter are scattered across a feed register, a water log and a harvest slip, so the true cost of one lot is rarely known. Nobody sees the whole lot.

Aquaculture farm software starts from the unit. A pond or cage opens with its seed lot, its count and its first sample weight. Everything after that joins the same record, from the first feed round to the last harvest net.

Before dawn the farm hand walks the dykes, checks the aerators and reads dissolved oxygen, temperature and pH at fixed points. Feed goes out by pond according to body weight and stage, in several rounds. Dead fish are counted at the edge and entered against the pond. Every few weeks a net is cast and a handful of fish are weighed to set the next ration. Then the round begins again.

A seed delivery arrives in oxygenated bags with a count and a supplier slip, and is acclimatised before release. Treatments follow a diagnosis, each with a withdrawal period that must pass before sale. When a pond is ready, the manager books a harvest crew, ice and a vehicle. The catch is graded by size and weighed out to a buyer or a processor against an order.