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Fish culture in Congo Brazzaville – (Part 2 of 2) – 20-min Video

The ownership of this video goes to FAO and was submitted to me by Alain Murekambanze(Burundi) Fish culture in Congo Brazzaville = Le pisciculture au Congo. de Graaf, G.J.; Schrover, A.; Lyklema, L.E. 1990. FAO/PNUD/PRC/88/007. This is the second Part of a 2-part video. The focus of the video is the description of tilapia farming …

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Fish culture in Congo Brazzaville – (Part 1 of 2) – 40 min Video

The ownership of this video goes to FAO and was submitted to me by Alain Murekambanze(Burundi) Fish culture in Congo Brazzaville = Le pisciculture au Congo. de Graaf, G.J.; Schrover, A.; Lyklema, L.E. 1990. FAO/PNUD/PRC/88/007. This is the first Part of a 2-part video. The focus of the video is the description of tilapia farming …

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Pond culture of “Paiche”, Arapaima gigas in Peru – Video

Video credit: Juan Martin Canturin Garcia (Peru) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel and website) Arapaima gigas  is Known as paiche in Peru and pirarucu in Brazil and Colombia.  This species is one of the largest freshwater scaled fishes in the world. Paiche is characterized by its excellent high growth rate, …

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Liming fish ponds

This 4-slide information bite addresses the liming of fish ponds including the different purposes of liming as well as types of lime and criteria of each lime form. The applications of lime has been addressed and supported by photos. Determining the quantity and need through analysis has been also covered. http://fishconsult.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Liming-fish-ponds.pdf

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Use of lift net (Khora jal) in fish harvesting in Ghagot river in Bangladesh

Credit: Abu Sayed Talukder and Zahangir Alam (Bangladesh) This traditional method/gear is locally named “Khora jal”. The photo shows the practice of setting the lift nets “Khora jal” in Ghagot river, Gaibandha sadar Upazila, Gaibandha District. Khora jal is one of the mostly used fishing gears in flood plain during the rainy season. This triangular net …

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Delivering and transporting fish fingerlings to small-scale fish producers in Mozambique

Credit: Maria do Carmo Carrilho (Mozambique) The inserted photos show the delivery of fish fingerlings to peasant fish producers as a sideline activity. This picture was taken in one of the provinces of Mozambique during a FAO regional project (SADC countries) financed by Sweden and Belgium. This province had a governmental experimental, demonstration (including integrated fish-duck …

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Fishery of Kafr El Sheikh in relation to Egyptian fishery

Highlighting Kafr El Sheikh fishery is attributed to its contribution to Egyptian fishery. This flyer starts with some historic information on the governorate then after focusing on fishery resources in Kafr El Sheikh including capture fishery with more focus on Lake Burullus. The development of aquaculture in Kafr El Sheikh has been addressed in bullets …

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Fish processing and export at Karachi Sindh, Pakistan

Credit: Kanwal Odhejo (Pakistan) There are 29 fish processing units in Pakistan with storage capacity of 10,000 tons, out of these 25 units are located in Karachi of Federal Government provided intelligentsia and technical assistance to seafood establishments for improving their processing conditions in line with various EU / international standards. Through this process, eight …

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Preserving shrimp in Senegal through salting and sun-drying

Credit: Makhtar Ndiaye (Senegal) The inserted photo shows a woman during the sun-drying of shrimp as a means of preservation and marketing. This practice occurs in the Casamance region of southern Senegal. The sun-drying of shrimp is done after being boiled and salted. After drying, the product will be packaged and ready for sale.   …

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Production of all-male Nile tilapia fry in a commercial facility in Pakistan

Credit: Muhammad Shahid Iqbal (Tawakkal)- Pakistan The masculinization of the fry of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) –as shown in the photo- is done in 5m2-hapas placed in earthen ponds. In order to judge the age of fry, only fry hatched from collected eggs are used in the sex-reversal process in which the male hormone 17 …

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