Jun 25 2012
Credit: Juma Frezar (South Sudan) This photo has been taken in the marketing location of dried fish in Bonito City, South Sudan. Dried fish species are usually abundant and available all-year round. Because of the low consumer preference to dried fish compared to fresh fish, its market price is lower than fresh fish. By the …
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Jun 25 2012
This video was taken in Monterey Bay Aquarium, USA The Pacific sea nettle, Chrysaora fuscescens which lives in the Pacific Ocean is a free-floating, large jellyfish with a bell of up to about 30-50 cm across in diameter. It has four long oral arms surrounding its mouth. Sea nettles have bright distinctive colors which make them a popular …
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Jun 15 2012
This photo was taken on 9 June, 2012 at: Monterey Bay Aquarium, California, USA Feeding behavior: This octopus hides in its den under rocks or in a cave. By night, an octopus leaves its den to hunt after its favorite prey such as crustaceans, small crabs, scallops, abalone, snails, clams and fish. Octopuses in general when feed …
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Jun 15 2012
This short video was taken on 09 June, 2012 at Monterey Bay Aquarium, California, USA Life history: The Giant Pacific Octopus is a short-lived animal, with life spans of 3-5 years. When sexually mature, females may lay 20,000 – 100,000 eggs over a period of several days. Eggs are intensively cared for by the females until …
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Jun 15 2012
This short video was taken on 9 June, 2012 at: Monterey Bay Aquarium, California, USA Introduction: The Giant Pacific Octopus or North Pacific Giant octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini), is claimed to be the largest or the second largest octopus in the world. This animal belongs to the genus Enteroctopus, order Octopoda. Octopuses are cephalopod mollusks characterized …
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Jun 11 2012
Credit: Alain Manirambona (Burundi) The first floating cage in Burundi was installed in April 2012 in the lake Dogodogo, Cibitoke province. This cage is 6×6 m, and has 4 compartments. The juveniles of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus have been stocked in the cage. The first picture shows the cage during assembling near the beach, the next shows …
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Jun 10 2012
Credit: Grace Charway (Ghana) This is stocking of the Susu dam which has a surface area of 1.0 ha in the Lawra district in the Upper West Region, Ghana. The fingerlings were taken from the Billibor dam by the fishermen in the community under the supervision of officials from the Fisheries Commission. As been established, about …
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Jun 10 2012
Credit: Charles Ibinga Maganga (Gabon) Ici c’est une journée de sexage à SIAT/GABON, regarder la forme des épuisettes avec leur cerceau en liane; les femmes récupèrent les tilapia fingerlings (Pm≈ 40gr) dans les 30 étangs de pré-grossissements (36m²/étang); les mises en charge dans ces étangs se font à 20 alevins/m². Par jour je sexe environs 3500 …
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Jun 07 2012
Credit: Juma Frezar (South Sudan) The two photos show a typical fish market in Banito city, Unity State (South Sudan). One of the photos shows the customers who could not find their target fresh fish as what was there was dried fish of lower consumer preference. The second photo shows a fish trader who refused to …
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Jun 07 2012
This video shows the feeding of tilapia fry in a hapa fixed in an earthen pond in Egypt). The long handled feeder helps to carry out feeding from a distance and to spread the powdered feed over the surface of the nursing hapa.
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