Apr 14 2015
Photo credit: Gurgen Khanamirian (Armenia) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) This trout farm shown in the inserted photo is located in the north of Armenia and specializes in growing rainbow trout, brown trout and Sevan trout. Aquaculture represents the key fishery system in Armenia representing around 90% of total fish production …
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Apr 11 2015
Credit: Nick James (Rivendell Hatchery – South Africa) The photo shows a fish farm located at Bela Vista 42km south of Maputo on Rio Maputo (Mozambique). The farm consists of 26 of flooded half-hectare ponds, while many more are under construction. It took three years since starting the construction and getting into production. The farm …
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Apr 10 2015
Credit: Numel Phiri (Zambia) This picture is for a general market for fish and other goods as well. This is the second biggest in terms of fish trading after the Mulamba Harbor market which is at the hub of fish trading. However, the harbor market is characterized by fish trading structures made out of …
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Apr 09 2015
Photo credit with caption: Greenpeace Additional review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) This photo shows a tug towing a tuna cage between fishing grounds in Libya and tuna farms in Sicily, Italy. It may worth adding that the fattening of Bluefin tuna in Italy started in 2001 by a 4-cage …
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Apr 04 2015
Photo credit:Gurgen Khanamirian (Armenia) Review: Gurgen Khanamirianand Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted picture was taken in an intensive rainbow trout freshwater farm located in Central Jutland (Denmark). Fish production in this given farm amounts 100-110 kg/m3. The following review provides some background information on the development of trout culture in Denmark. …
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Apr 02 2015
Credit: Bishnu khanal (Nepal) Review: Bishnu khanal and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Kulekhani resenvoir is one of the reservoir in the middle of Nepal in which cage farming takes place to produce table fish in rural areas. The inserted photo shows some of cage farmers while transporting …
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Mar 31 2015
Note: This short video is a piece of the original 31-min which exists on this site and video channel This short video shows clearly the preference of frogs towards live tilapia compared to the dry pellets. It is interesting to see an individual from while staying over pellets, chawing one before spitting it out. On …
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Mar 30 2015
Photo credit: David Elliot (UK – MacAlister Elliott & Ptrs) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The use of beach seine net –although highly destructive- is popular and widely used in many African countries whereas the practice takes place along the coast in lagoons, estuaries and rivers in areas …
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Mar 29 2015
Video credit: Juan Martin Canturin Garcia (Peru) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and video channel) This video shows the harvest of farmed Peruvian scallop, Argopecten purpuratus (fan shell) in Peru. The culture of fan shell (sea scallop) in Peru was developed as small projects in the 1980s; then progressing to much larger …
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Mar 28 2015
Credit: Nick James (Rivendell Hatchery – South Africa) This tunnel grow-out tilapia farm is located in Grahamstown, South Africa. Red tilapia (O. mossambicus is the fish grown in this farm). Each greenhouse measures 46×8 meters. There are 20 tanks under the greenhouse of 7000 l each; water depth in the tanks …
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