Category: Fisheries

This category includes fishery practices, fishing boats and gears as well as related activities in landing sites. Lake fishery management is a major part of this category including stock enhancement programs

Artisanal fishery in Ghana: Some fish for family – some fish for trade – Video

Credit: Ivan Venkonwine Kaleo (Ghana) The video shows the aluminum container used by fish traders to carry their fish. In the video an individual is seen picking some fish and putting them in his fertilizer bag. After fishing, the fishermen usually carry some of their catch home for their own families and then sell the …

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Lake Malawi artisanal fisheries- Video

Video provided for publishing by: Carolyn M. Chinguo (Malawi) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (founder of the site & video channel) Even though Chichewa is the language of this 9-min video, visitors who are not Chichewa speakers can become acquainted with the fishery activities in Lake Malawi. This may include the traditional fishing boats (rowe …

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Angling of orange-spotted grouper in Lake Songkhla (Thailand)

Credit: Samart Detsathit (Thailand) Review: Samart Detsathit and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (the site founder) The photo shows a young angler catching a specimen of orange-spotted songkhla, Epinephelus coioides in Lake Songkhla, Thailand. This lake is largest natural lake in Thailand, located on the Malay Peninsula in the southern part of the country. The lake covers an area of about …

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Fishing practices in the Golinga Dam, Tolon, Ghana

Credit: Ivan Venkonwine Kaleo (Ghana) The water body shown in the picture is the Golinga Dam, located in the Tolon District of the Northern Region. It was a dam constructed to provide water for the rural communities surrounding it mainly for irrigation purposes. The Boat is a hand dug canoe used for artisanal fisheries by …

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Collection of sand crabs in Thailand (facts – collection – consumption)

Credit for the photo and the essential information: Samart Detsathit (Thailand) Review:  Abdel Rahman El Gamal (the site founder) The sand crab or mole crab which are known as “Hippoids” belong to the super family “Hippoidea”. These small crabs of 1-5 cm in size are adopted to burrow into sandy beaches near the water throughout …

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Artisanal fishing boats operating in Bolivia (casco – peque peque)

Source: www.fishconsult.org Credit: Leon Felipe Alviz (Bolivia) The two photos show two common fishing boats operating in Bolivia. The first is non-motorized boats (rawboats) which is called “casco” that means helmet. The boat is made of sandbox evergreen tree “Hura crepitans”, and/or Mara “Swietenia macrophylla” which is known as big-leaf mahogany.   This boat operates …

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Night gillnetting in Bolivia

Credit: Leon Felipe Alviz (Bolivia) The photos show the night gill netting in Bolivia. According to fishery regulation, the type of nets as well as its mesh size is determined. Of course this will be related to the target species. Generally, predatory species of greatest commercial value are targeted in night fishing whereas fishing boats …

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Trapping in artisanal fishery in Benin

Credit for the photos: Ismael Radwan (Egypt) The photos show simple fishing gears (traps) which are made of locally available materials. Trapping is a favored fishing practice to artisanal fishermen especially whenever fishery stocks are abundant as well as when the right location for placing the traps is chosen. This is in addition to the …

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Fish trapping in the Northen lakes in Egypt

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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Fish harvest in a water basin in Senegal – in French

Credit: Lo Oumy Seck (Senegal) Ici c’est une récolte dans basin de rétention. Au Sénégal certains bassins sont utilisés pour la pisciculture et c’est surtout destiné à la population locale qui les gèrent. Ils sont entrain de faire le triage, et il ya des commerçants qui attendent pour acheter et aller vendre dans les marchés locales. …

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