Abdel Rahman El Gamal
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Jun 08 2015
Shrimp trawling in the Negombo Lagoon, SriLanka
Photo credit: Tim Huntington (UK – Poseidon) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The Negombo Lagoon which is a large estuarine lagoon is situated in the Gampaha district at around 20 km north of Colombo. The lagoon covers an area of approximately 3,200ha. The source of freshwater lagoon is that is the …
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Jun 06 2015
Boat building along the coast of Volta Lake (Ghana)
Photo credit:David Elliott (Mac Alister Elliott & Pts.) – UK Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted picture shows the boat building of a typical boat to be operated in Volta Lake (Ghana). Such boats can be in fishing as well as in carrying feed to cages in Volta Lake. The …
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Jun 05 2015
Bering Sea and the discovery of a new sponge species
Photo credit: Greenpeace Review: Greenpeace and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The Bering Sea, Alaska which is in the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean, has been named after Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian explorer who sailed the Sea in 1728. The sea is considered one of the wildest regions in the world and similarly …
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May 30 2015
Introducing reef ball technology into Racha Island, Phuket, (Thailand)
Credit for photos: Reef Ball Foundation (http://www.reefball.org) Review: Reef Ball Foundation and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The December 26 Tsunami struck, negatively affected a significant portion of the coral reef populations in the coastal belt in Thailand. Accordingly, the tourism activity in Racha Island (Phuket) has been seriously affected …
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May 23 2015
Culture of Indian carp (Rohu) in Pakistan
Credit: Muhammad Shahid Iqbal (Tawakkal) – Pakistan The inserted photo shows a typical earthen pond in which an Indian carp (Rohu; Labeo rohita) is being cultured. The required fingerlings of rohu are obtained from a hatchery on the facility. This species is popular among consumers in Pakistan. In fact, the rohu farming …
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May 22 2015
Use of specialized incubators in controlling the hatching of rainbow trout larvae
Credit: Troutlodge (USA) Review: Troutlodge and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The photo shows a row of individually-controlled incubators for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). This unique incubator’s establishment enables the control on egg development and so the hatching time in each individual incubator bearing in mind that fish …
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May 21 2015
Prior stocking stress tests for the whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)
This 2-slide bite addresses a quality control procedures which are commonly used prior to the stocking of whiteleg shrimp post larvae in grow-out ponds. The rationality of the tests as well as the common ones are included. http://fishconsult.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Stress-tests-for-the-postlarvae-of-whiteleg-shrimp.pdf
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May 19 2015
Passing by a penguin community in the SeaWorld (San Diego), California – Video
Source: www.fishconsult.org This video was filmed from a moving walkway in the penguin counter (Sea World – San Diego) on 26 December, 2014. This encounter was first opened in 1983. The walkway allowed watching and filming with no crowd at the glass. The encounter hosts some hundreds of birds which belong to several penguin species. …
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May 19 2015
Freshwater crab entangled in a gillnet in Kyafukuma River (Zambia)
Photos’ credit: Alick Grunnie Mbewe (Zambia) Review: Alick Grunnie Mbewe and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted photos show a freshwater crab, (Potamonautes sp) captured by a gill net in Kyafukuma River, Solwezi District. These crabs can forage over considerable distance by night and they may …
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