Feb 25 2014
Credit: Leon Felipe Alviz (Bolivia) In this fishery community, women and children receive the fish catch from fishermen who belong to the community for preparation. In this particular photo, children of different ages are handling several specimens of Pacu, Colossoma macropomun. In such remote areas whereas the city electricity is lacking fish are usually consumed …
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Feb 25 2014
Credit video: Manuel Cano Alfaro (Guatemala) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal and Manuel Cano Alfaro The video has been taken in one of the few tilapia hatcheries in Guatemala. This particular hatchery provides tilapia fingerlings in the coastal area. The video shows the hatchery facilities including earthen ponds, metal tanks and concrete tanks. The sampling of …
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Feb 23 2014
Abalones are dioecious (separate male and female sex) as abalones develop their eggs and sperm in gonads located under the soft skin visible between the foot and the shell. There is no sexual dimorphism of the shell structure and so the sexing of abalone cannot be done based on the external differentiation and is only …
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Feb 23 2014
Source: The heart of England by: Ivor Brown year:1935 The description related to the photos reads: East Anglian chronicles are written, so to speak, in herring-bone. Herring were once currency on those shores; rents were paid in them and international affrays followed the Dutchmen’s pursuit of the shoals into English waters. …
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Feb 20 2014
Credit: Glenda Vélez Calabria (Colombia) The photos show a part of the program carried out in the University of Cordoba, Spain. The university program contributes to the EU-funded program on the recovery plan for the European eel in the Guadalquivir River basin. This project component includes two stages which are namely, field trips and determination of …
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Feb 18 2014
The two photos show tapping of fish using wire traps. Fish trapping is used in any of the four northen lakes in Egypt which are namely: Manzala, Burullus, Edku and Maryut. Water shallowness, and the spread of aquatic weeds favor the use of fish traps especially the cost of these traps is very low. Most …
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Feb 18 2014
The main farmed crawfish species are red swamp crawfish (Procambarus clarkii) or white river crawfish (Procambarus acutus). The essential elements in crawfish farming include traps and baits. The photo which was taken in a crawfish farm in Louisiana, USA during 1980s show a type of traps which was in use during 1980s. Trapping: Bait trapping is the only harvesting …
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Feb 14 2014
This 2-slide bite explains the sampling of subsurface water in a fish pond.The water sampler has been covered and illustrated and so the procedures in obtaining water samples at a specified water depth in an earthen pond. [gview file=”http://fishconsult.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Sampling-of-subsurface-water-in-fish-ponds.pdf”]
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Feb 14 2014
Source of the text: Pageant of Ghana By: Freda Wolfson Year: 1958 Snails are valuable protein source among the forest people. In the district of Ahafo (Ghana), lies one of the richest areas for snail catching in Ghana. During the snail hunting season, whole villages –men, women and children –migrate into the forest, leaving only …
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Feb 11 2014
Source of the photos and some information: The lure of Alaska by Harry A. Franck, 1942. Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company As stated in the reference, two million pelts were taken the first year after the islands were discovered whereas the price/piece fell to $1. By 1834 only 8,000 skins were taken. Accordingly, Russia stopped …
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