Category: Aquaculture

This collection of photos includes various farmed species of fin-fish, shell fish, seaweed and others as well as the farming practices carried out in many countries in the world

Consumption of dried fish “Kajake” in Sudan

Credit: Mai Tawfig Ahmed and Gamal Ibrahim Hamid (Sudan) Supplemented by: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)       In Sudan, about 70% of fin fish is consumed fresh while 25% is consumed sun-dried leaving about 5% of total fish consumed wet salted. The inserted picture shows dried catfish which is mostly …

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Scallop ranching – Video

  This video was filmed in deep sea water in Scotland Video credit: Grant Campbell (Scot-Hatch Ltd, Scotland) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel)   The scallop shown in this video is king scallop which is produced through “Scallop ranching” in Scotland. The scallop ranching has launched as a result of …

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Seaweed culture in Kiribati Islands

Photo credit: Secretariat of the Pacific Community Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)         Two seaweed species (Eucheuma alvarezii & Eucheuma spinosum) were first introduced in Kiribati from Hawaii in 1977. Based on farming and marketing trials, only E. alvarezii was concentrated upon due to the very slow growth of E. spinosum. The common methods for seaweed …

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Fish Culture Development – Africa (2015) training course

    The inserted photo was taken on August 3, the first technical day of the “Fish Culture Development – Africa” training course for 2015. This 3-month course is being organized by the Egyptian International Center for Agriculture – EICA” and jointly supported by EICA and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The course this year …

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Cage culture of tilapia in River Nile in Egypt – Video

This video was filmed during October 2014 in the River Nile, Damietta region. Video credit: Willy Oviedo (Uruguay)       Typically, freshwater cages in Egypt has a surface area of 100m2 (10×10 m) with a depth of about 5 meters. Cage farmers gained enough experience in cage construction and management. The floats used in …

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Aquaculture and livelihoods in Ghana

Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana)       The ultimate aim of aquaculture is to provide food security aside providing employment to people. This picture shows a little boy who had had his share of fish food from his mother degutting harvested fish from a fish farm in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana. This shows of course that …

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Seaweed farming in Solomon Islands

Image credit: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Review: SPC and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)         The first grow-out trial of seaweed farming in Solomon Islands was undertaken between 1988 and 1991 whereas Eucheuma sp. was grown off-bottom or at the fixed-depth method. The grazing pressure from herbivorous fish (e.g. rabbitfish) …

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Farming of marine shrimp in Fiji

Image credit: Secretariat of the Pacific Community Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)       The inserted image shows the preparation of a shrimp pond in Fiji (liming). The following paragraphs review the development of farming of marine shrimp in Fiji. The shortage in the supply of marine shrimp in Fiji …

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Ombrage dans la culture commerciale de spirulines

Credit: spiruline-de-haute-saintonge.com/   La spiruline effectue le processus de photosynthèse, elle a donc besoin de périodes d’ombre et de lumière. Cependant c’est un micro-organisme et une exposition prolongée à certains rayonnement ultra-violets est dangereuse (phénomène de photolyse). Un système d’ombrages en protège donc la culture  

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Sexing tilapia based on genital papilla (Video)

This video shows the genital papilla in both sexes of large specimens of tilapia. The close view shows that in males the genital papilla has only one opening (the urinary pore of the ureter) through which both milt and urine pass while in females the eggs exit through a separate oviduct and only urine passes …

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