Credit for the video: Ismael Radwan (Egypt) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and the video channel) The video was taken in a catfish farm in Benin. The high density of catfish is reflected in the dark cloud of fishing moving in the tank. Often, the African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) is raised …
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Apr 16 2014
Stimulating the natural environmental conditions for the spawning of common carp using Dubisch method
The credit of the figure: FAO, the artificial propagation of warm-water finfishes Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal The Dubisch method was named after Thomas Dubisch, the fishery inspector who introduced this system which has been used afterwards based on its practically, efficiency, and cost. The Dubisch method includes facilities, fish and management. The key facility …
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Apr 10 2014
Culture of variety of fish species in off-shore cages and feeding systems
Credit: Huseyn Ek (Akuakare, Turkey) The photos shows typical off-shore cages use to grow variety of fish species including gilthead seabream, European seabass, trout, meagre, carp, tilapia, and sturgeon. As expected, cage productivity and growing seasons should vary according to farmed species whereas average productivity could be 10-12 kg/m3 for seabream, seabass and trout increasing to …
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Apr 10 2014
Cage farming of bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in Turkey
Credit: Huseyn Ek (Akuakare, Turkey) The photos are taken in some tuna farms in Turkey whereas the bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is the species of choice. These cage farms are located in Alanya and Lzmir in Turkey. Tunas required for farming are collected from the nature and stocked in these cage in which they are …
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Apr 08 2014
Constructing a simple net grader for tilapia or catfish fry in Benin
Photo credit: Ismael Radwan (Egypt) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal The two photos show a simple 2-unit fish grader made of a metal frame and netting materials which are locally available in Benin. As expected, the inner unit which is smaller and shallower should be made of larger-mesh net to enable larger size fry to …
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Apr 07 2014
Round Stingray, Urobatis sp. (Description, feeding, reproduction, threats to human)
Photo credit: Glenda Vélez Calabria (Colombia) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal This photo was taken in mundo marino and te mostramos lo que pasa en el fondo, Colombia Introduction: The round stingrays are which belong to the family “Urolophidae” and the genus “Urobatis” are cartilaginous fishes. It is also known as raya redonda (in Spanish). Due to …
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Apr 04 2014
Display of smoked stingray in an Indonesian fish market
Photo credit: Anna Jamil (Indonesia) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal The photo which was taken in a traditional fish market located in Pamulang, Banten Province. The photo shows the display of smoked stingray. Stingray fish is one of the most acceptable and popular fish species to be smoked in Indonesia especially processed traditionally method. There …
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Apr 02 2014
Blowfish (Biology — poisoning — utilization)
Credit of the photo: Glenda Vélez Calabria (Colombia) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the site) This photo was taken in mundo marino and te mostramos lo que pasa en el fondo, Colombia Introduction: The blowfish belongs to the “Tetraodontidae” family which includes more than 120 species that occur worldwide. Most of blow fish species are found …
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Mar 25 2014
Hand-feeding of African catfish broodstock in Benin
Video credit: Ismael Radwan (Egypt) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal The video shows how peacefully the broodstock of African catfish, Clarias gariepinus repeatedly pick the feed pellets from the operator,s hand. We notice the tank has a net coverage to keep the catfish from jumping out of the tank.
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Mar 22 2014
Fishing, drying and trade of anchovies in the Sultanate of Oman
Credit: Hussein Ali Mohammed Alshihi (Oman) One of the photos show a group of fishermen who are handling their catch of anchovies which was caught in the sea and then after pulled close to the shore using special gillnets. The caught anchovies are sun-dried and marketed as dried anchovies where the price of the 4-kg dried …
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