Jun 09 2016
Photo credit: ICSF (India) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Smoked fish/shrimp has a good demand in India. Several fish species are used for smoking with mullets and shrimp being the preferred species. The inserted picture shows the traditional method for shrimp smoking. These traditional kilns are mainly made of …
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Jun 08 2016
Day: 8 June, 2016 We understand you do not have facebook account. You established your nest and laid your eggs outside the window of our kitchen while we were in a short vacation in the Red Sea region (18-22 May). We discovered that upon our return. Since then we did all our best …
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Jun 01 2016
Video credit: Hisham El Gazzar (Egypt) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel) The olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) is also known as “bastard halibut”. The flounder has been cultured in South Korea since 1980s when 19 tons of farmed flounder were produced in 1980. Afterwards, the production of olive flounder has …
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May 29 2016
Video credit: Hai DO Xuan (Vietnam) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel) The video has been filmed in a temporarily aquaculture facility in Vietnam. One can easily see how specimens of snakehead in such excessive density while sliding, jumping and moving in such thin film of water. Snakeheads …
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May 28 2016
Video credit: Herman Hennig (Argentina) Review: Herman Hennig and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and video channel) The video was filmed in a fish farm located in Misiones Province, San Jose. The earthen pond shown in the video is about 3 ha whereas “dorado” (Salminus brasiliensis) is being cultured; …
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May 25 2016
Photo credit: Mohamed Hassan (ORCA, Marsa Alam) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The Remoras are a group of fish that belong to the family “Echeneidae” and may be called suckerfish. They lack swim bladder; instead they use a sucking disc on the top of their heads to attach themselves …
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May 24 2016
Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Recreational divers do not usually have access to voice communication equipment and instead they use hand signals as the primary method of underwater communication especially whenever they can see each other. These signals are also used in general use as an alternative …
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May 16 2016
Video credit: Patricia Martin Cabrera (United Arab Emirates) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel) Introduction: The Emperor Angelfish (Pomacanthus imperator), is a reef-associated marine angelfish and is also called the Imperator Angelfish or Imperial Angelfish. The species is one of the most stunning underwater fish. Their color and graceful shape make them one …
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May 15 2016
Photo credit: Karen Sachica Cepeda (Colombia) Review: Karen Sachica Cepeda and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) presence in Colombia dates to the 1930s when it was first introduced to the country while first record of farmed trout should up in marginal quantity (3 tons) in 1971. Afterwards, …
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May 14 2016
Photo credit: Martiza Marroquin de Rivas (El Salvador) Review: Ana Martiza Marroquin and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Tilapia contributed significantly in aquaculture in El Salvador. According to FAO statistics, the first show-up of farmed tilapia occurred in 1984 where 10 tons of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) was produced. Afterwards, there …
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