Do you guys have any insight into buying yellow perch?

Do you buy eggs, fry, fingerlings... or buy fish that are about to spawn and try to hatch your own?

The main reason I ask is that the "advertised" prices for fingerlings are about 6x more than expected. Does the price drop significantly if you buy more fish?

The only "discounts" that I have seen were "up to 15%" on $3000 or more; which is still 5x as much as they should be (according to the owner of one of the major hatcheries who won't send fish to Wisconsin due to the testing requirements for importing fish).

This will put us out of business before we even have water in the tanks if we can't find a more reasonable source.