Tag: fish feeding

Use of Black Soldier Fly larvae in fish feeding in Egypt (Video)

I filmed this video during my visit to an aquaponic facility owned and managed by Dr. Hisham Haggag. The visit took place on 2 November, 2017. Introduction: The larvae of the Black soldier fly (SFD), (Hermetia illucens) have been proposed decades ago as an efficient converter of organic wastes into live and highly nutritional biomass …

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Small-scale cage aquaculture in Mymensingh River in Bangladesh

Credit: Abu Sayed Talukder & Zahangir Alam (Bangladesh) and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)                     The small-scale cages seen in these pictures are placed in old Brahmaputra River. The small-scale fish farming in Bangladesh is considered an important opportunity to provide a protein …

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Cage culture of Nile tilapia in Lake Volta, Ghana

Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana) The first photo shows the culture of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus in floating cages placed in Lake Volta in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana. Typical cages in Lake Volta are square of 5 m x 5 m with a depth of 5 m. The photo shows water lily which relatively causes a …

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Farming and processing of catfish and shrimp in Vietnam – 15-min Video

Credit: Nguyen Van Hoa (Vietnam) Source: www.fishconsult.org This video presents farming of catfish and shrimp in Vietnam. Farming husbandry such as feeding and sampling is covered. Fish processing is covered in this video.

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Economics of fish feeding

This information bite address fish feeding focusing on economics. Due to the economic law of dimenishing returns, ad libitum feeding is not recommended in commercial aquaculture. This information bite addresses the considerations of fry feeding as well as untraditional feed stuffs. [important]Economics of fish feeding[/important]  

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