Jennifer McCann, Mathew MCcann (Breeder), Ross Morgan (Breeder), Tara Morgan

I began as a Koi hobbyist about 38 years ago, discovering Koi in a tropical fish store. I immediately became infatuated with them and began the process of a gradual education through reading the very few books available at that time, then finding the magazine, Koi U.S.A. This magazine brought me to California, the then “mecca” of Koi in the U.S., and ultimately to the “source,” Japan (which I have since visited approximately 40 times), initially as a hobbyist, then as an amateur Koi dealer from my home, and finally as a professional Koi dealer. Subsequently, I built a Koi store in center city Philadelphia that was operated for approximately 3-4 years. Finally, after some amateur breeding of Koi in my backyard at home and further experimentation on a small farm in Pennsylvania, I purchased a 43-acre farm property in the farmlands of Salem County, NJ and created a Japanese-style Koi farm with the goal of producing top-grade Koi from carefully selected, high-grade imported Japanese stocks.

In the process, we have copied virtually all of the Japanese breeding and rearing techniques and even slightly improved on them from a standpoint of filtration and fish health. Since these two areas vary greatly from breeder to breeder in Japan (there are many levels of filtration and health), our improvements in these two areas are relative to the degree of sophistication of the particular Japanese breeder.

I’m pleased to say we are now consistently producing and growing a quantity of top-quality koi that is able to successfully compete in koi shows across the country against imported Japanese koi. As a result, each year more and more of our koi are producing more and more top-show awards.