Category: Aquaculture

This collection of photos includes various farmed species of fin-fish, shell fish, seaweed and others as well as the farming practices carried out in many countries in the world

Trout farming in Cundinamarca, Colombia

Credit for the photo and key information: Karen Sachica Cepeda (Colombia) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)       This photo was taken in a tank trout farm located in Cundinamarca Department, Colombia. The rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss was introduced into Colombia in 1939 for the purpose of the stocking in …

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Watching fish harvest in a fish pond in Campo Viera (Argentine)

Photo credit: Herman Hennig (Argentine) Description: Herman Henning and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)         This photo shows a Fish harvest in a fish pond during which neighbors go to witness the harvest process and buy their needs of fish. The considerable large crowd indicates that there was an …

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Intensive pond culture of African catfish in Cameroon – Video

Video credit: Domwa Mathieu (Cameroon) Review: Domwa Mathieu and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel)       The video was filmed in a private fish farm located in Lagdo, Nord region (Garoua). The farm which has 23 earthen ponds contributes to the promotion plan for the culture of African catfish (Clarias …

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Planning of aquaculture projects – 2015 lecture

This lecture has been delivered in two training course hosted during 2015 by the Egyptian International Centre for Agriculture (EICA).  The first course hosts African participants while the second course hosts participants from Africa, Asia and Latin America. This lecture serves as a platform for the group projects through which course participants form 3-4 groups …

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Transporting of administering of fish feed in a cage farm in Ghana

Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana)         The inserted photos belong to a cage farm in the Asuogyaman District, Ghana. The cage farmer uses a motorized local planked canoe of about 10m in length to cart feed to the farm. The farmer is the one sitting on his feed. The unfortunate thing is that such farmers …

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Integrated aquaculture-poultry system in Tanzania

Photos’ credit: Lucka Paschal and Erick Kiiza (Tanzania) Description: Lucka Paschal and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)           The inserted pictures were taken during 2010 in an integrated fish-chicken farm located at Tarime District in Mara Region, Tanzania. Tarime is one of the districts of Mara Region and is situated …

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Fish Culture Development training course – 2015

      The technical session of the 75-day “Fish Culture Development” training course started in Cairo on the 8th of October, 2015. This course has been annually organized and supported by the Egyptian International Centre for Agriculture (EICA) since 1989. The participants in the 2015 course are: Hennig Hernan Hernando (Argentine), MD. Abdul Wahed (Bangladesh), …

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Fish feeding in off-shore marine cages in Spain – Video

Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and video channel) Marine cages are usually located away of the coast in order to enjoy better water quality as well as well as to reduce the pollutant impacts. In such systems and as shown in this 3-min video (filmed in Spain), automated feeding system is …

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Green tilapia (Tilapia zillii) in the catch of lake Qarun, Egypt

    Lake Qarun (21,800 ha) in Fayoum, Egypt is a closed system which originated from a fresh water lake called Mories. After the disconnection of Nile water reaching the lake, the agricultural drainage water of Fayoum province became the only source of water feeding the lake. Consequently, and due to the extensive evaporation, the …

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Lake harvest of tilapia in Samoa Islands

Photo credit: Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)       Samoa consists of two large islands, Upolu and Savaii, and seven smaller islands with 326 villages; out of which, about 230 of these villages are coastal. There are few freshwater bodies. Over time, several exotic …

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