Category: Gallery

Sturgeon nutrition and feeding

Photo credit: Facundo Marquez (Estuario del Plata – Uruguay) Review: Facundo Marquez and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)       This photo has been taken in a commercial caviar producing farm in Uruguay. The feed mill shown in the inserted photo belongs to the farm and produced feed and feed ingredients are certified …

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Female fish farmer while managing her farm in Zambia

Credit: Numel  Phiri  (Zambia) Review: Numei Phiri and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)     The inserted photo is taken in a small-scale fish farm in Zambia. The farm which belongs to a female fish farmer, has a total of 3 ponds; 2 breeding ponds (5mx5m) each and one production pond (20mx25m), the …

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Construction and management of a typical fish farm in Burundi

Photo credit: Nick James (Rivendell Hatchery – South Africa) Review: Nick James and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)         The inserted picture shows an earthen fish pond under construction which is located near Bujumbura, Burundi. The average size of the pond in this private farm is 0.5 ha while …

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Maintenance of cages in Lake Volta, Asuogyaman, (Ghana)

Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana)     As cage aquaculture continues to boom in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana, more and more people get employment in diverse fields. The insert shows a diver in a private cage farm in Lake Volta. His work primarily is to dive into the lake to check the conditions of the cages. This …

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Dried “dagaa” in Musoma Market (Tanzania)

Photo credit: KIVA-API (build.kiva.org) Review: KIVA – API and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Musoma is a small town located in the northeastern corner of Tanzania, right on the shores of Lake Victoria. The local market shown in the picture is close to the lake shore, where one can see a pile …

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Crab while eating Scallops; its favorite food – Video

This video was filmed in deep sea water in Scotland Video credit: Grant Campbell (Scot-Hatch Ltd, Scotland) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel)     Sea stars and crabs are generally thought to have the largest predatory impact on seeded scallops of a variety of species. During sea ranching, a population …

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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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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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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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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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