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Raceway culture of rainbow trout in Spain

Credit: Ahmed Zaki (Egypt) The photos show the raceways in which the intensive culture of rainbow trout takes place. Each raceway measures 5 m x 50 m with a depth of one meter. The 50-g fingerlings maintained in the nursery tanks are moved to the grow-out raceways using pumps. This particular farm produces 1000 tons …

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Desert aquaculture in Fouja village, North Kordofan (Sudan) – Pond management

Credit: Mamoun Obeida (Sudan) The photos show series of the management practices applied to the fish pond in the desert area in Fouja village, Bara Locality- North Kordofan State. As shown in the photos, the pond has been filled with underground water before the stocking of Nile tilapia fingerlings. Throughout the growing season, fish are …

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Local pressed feed for tilapia in Benin

Credit: Ismael Radwan (Egypt) The photo shows the end product of pressed feed that is locally made on fish farm and in which meat grinder is used in pressing the feed ingredients. As expected, the diameter of produced feed will depend on the diameter of dye used. Also, the water stability for such feed is …

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Locally manufacturing of fish feed in Benin

Credit: Ismael Radwan (Egypt) The advanced feed manufacturing practices is not available in Benin at the moment. Instead and as shown in the photo, locally available materially are mixed for the production of fish feed. Local feed ingredients include cassava, local fish meal, rice bran, wheat bran, and corn.    

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Production of Nile tilapia and African catfish fingerlings at Richard-Toll station, Saint Louis, Senegal

Credit: Lo Oumy Seck (Senegal) This earthen pond belongs is a hatchery which in turn belongs to Richard-Toll station (Saint Louis) in the north of Senegal.  The station produces about 100,000 of 2-g fingerlings of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) every year. Moreover, fingerlings of African catfish, Clarias gariepinus are also produced.  While fry feeds mainly …

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Development and outlook of Egyptian aquaculture – updated 2013 version

This review addresses the following issues: Contribution of aquaculture to total fishery over an extended period of time Mode of aquaculture development in Egypt starting by historic information Aquaculture development and natural resources (land and water) Aquaculture practices in relation to the limitation of natural resources (intensification, integration, rotation) Production basket focusing on tilapia Aquaculture …

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Commercial fish feed production in Egypt (Video)

Video credit: Alain Murekambanze (Burundi) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal Fish feed industry is witnessing a steadily development in order to cope with aquaculture development which is about a million tons at the present. Fish feed is produced through different types of feed mills. This video shows feed production in commercial feed mills which are …

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Utilization of earthworms in fish feeding

Photo credit: Gerardo Ontiveros Lopez (Mexico) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)     Introduction: The lumbricids which are commonly known as earthworms belong to the family Lumbricidae which hosts very many species that are naturalized around the world. Because earthworms could be used as fishing bait, it is also called “angleworm”, also, “night crawler” is …

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Promotion of aquaculture in Gaza strip (Palestine)

Credit: Masoud Keshta (Palestine) As the shortage in fish supply in Gaza strip is obvious, efforts have been spent to promote aquaculture in Gaza. The scarcity of water has been highly considered in the choice of aquaculture system to promote. The national authorities in partnership with international programs are supporting the current aquaculture project that …

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