Dec 08 2014
Credit: Vui Kien Liew (Malaysia) The two photos show how fish farmers design a fish stall and display their fish. These photos were taken in Temerloh District, aka where Pangasius is the most famous and popular fish species in this region. This catfish was introduced from Thailand in the 1980’s and was successfully induced bred …
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Dec 07 2014
Credit: Carolyn Madalo Chinguo (Malawi) The inserted photos show a case of confiscated catch from Lake Malawi. The illegal size of the catch that seems a mixture of tilapia species represents almost all of confiscated fish.
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Dec 04 2014
Credit: Bishnu khanal (Nepal) The inserted photo shows the excavators during the construction of new fish ponds in Nepal. There is a small ongoing support program “Mission Fish” of the Ministry of Agricultural Development through which about 10-15% of the construction cost is covered as a subsidy. Rather than pond construction and under the “Mission …
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Dec 03 2014
Credit: Muhammad Shahid Iqbal (Tawakkal)- Pakistan This is an annual event which is carried out at an aquaculture facility located in Muzaffar, Pakistan. This particular event took place on the 6th of November 2013. About 100 fish farmers from southern Punjab attended this event. The field day targeted to promote aquaculture and in particular tilapia culture …
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Nov 28 2014
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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Nov 26 2014
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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Nov 25 2014
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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Nov 25 2014
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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Nov 24 2014
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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Nov 24 2014
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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