May 13 2016
Photo credit: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted photo shows the floating cages of tilapia in Lake Manure (Vanuatu). The original stock of tilapia has been imported from Fiji where subsequent fry importation of red tilapia hybrids came from Thailand in …
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May 12 2016
Photo credit: Hai DO Xuan (Vietnam) Review: Hai DO Xuan and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted picture shows the nursing of cobia (Rachycentron canadum) in Vietnam using green water in a semi-intensive rearing method. This method has been developed in 2005 and got adopted in private …
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May 12 2016
Photos credit: Aliadoumadji Rimadoum (Chad) Review: Aliadoumadji Rimadoum and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The photos show a group of women during a practical demonstration on fish processing during which the importance of the high quality of raw materials (fish) to begin with was highlighted. The demonstration addressed the …
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May 10 2016
Photos’ credit: Domwa Mathieu (Cameroon) Review: Domwa Mathieu and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted pictures show the harvest of a fish pond in a rural area in Cameroon. Typically, a pond harvest attracts potential buyers as well as many audiences who enjoy witnessing this event. The most common practice …
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May 02 2016
Photo credit: Fabrice Juliot Mougang (Cameroon) Review: Fabrice Juliot Mougang and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) These photo were taken in a fish farm in Ebolowa (the capital of Cameroon’s South Region) show a type of livestock integration into fish farming. The pictures show a piggery constructed over the pond which …
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Apr 24 2016
Photo credit: Herman Hennig Hernando (Argentina) Review: Herman Hennig Hernando and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted photo shows the harvest of Amazonian catfish (Pseudoplatystoma spp.) grown in a fish farm of earthen ponds located in Caraguatay, Misiones province, Argentine. This species which belongs to family, Pimelodidae …
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Apr 20 2016
Photo Credit: Florida Memory Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) In some places turtle meat and eggs are considered important food source to local people while in other places meat and eggs are considered a delicacy. Others customarily consume sea turtle meat in observance of religious holidays. Turtle eggs have …
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Apr 16 2016
Video credit: World Fish Center Review: World Fish Center and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel) This video was filmed in Tanzania. In Tanzania, illegal and destructive fishing practices threaten environmental sustainability and the livelihoods of small-scale fishers. The future of several communities reliant on fisheries depends on finding …
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Apr 12 2016
Photos’ credit: Lucka Paschal and Erick Kiiza (Tanzania) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Mud crab (Scylla serrata) is a species with good aquaculture potential due to its productive performance as well as its market demand and price. The live mud crabs in particular are always in greater demand …
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Apr 11 2016
Photo credit: World Fish Center Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Cambodian fishery sector has more women than men due to decades of war including many female heads of households. In fact, women form the majority of fish marketers in Cambodia whereas they play a primary role in fish processing …
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