[RayJordan]

Quote: Originally Posted by JasPR "I think that koi in Florida was a very small world and there were just a few players. I recall Ray Jordan mentioning something about his friend Megumi Yoshida and his early efforts to start a farm back in the 1970s? .. JR

Megumi told me he was hired out to work for Axelrod via Megumi's father to start a koi farm in Florida near Tampa After a lot of hard work preparing ponds and a basic breeding facility there was only a single season of breeding (1968) and culling. Megumi said that Axelrod never paid him or his father and he returned to Japan in 1969. I asked what happened to the koi or the facilities after he left but he didn't know.