The “Gone Fishing” aquaculture project is located about 10 miles south of Klamath Falls, Oregon, near Merrill in the Lower Klamath Valley adjacent to the Klamath Hills. The original ponds were construct in 1984 and had limited use. The present facility, operated by Ron Barnes, started in 1990 using the effluent from a geothermal greenhouse operation on the Liskey Ranch on Lower Klamath Lake Road. In 1998, he purchased 80 acres of land just north of the greenhouses on the opposite side of the road. Today, the operation consists of 37 ponds located on the Liskey Ranch and 35 at the new location. The aquaculture ponds are used to raise 85 varieties of tropical fish (cichlids) that originated from Lake Malawi in East Africa’s Great Rift Valley and from Central America