This category hosts the key farmed species of fin-fish, shell fish, seaweed and others including those grown in various environments (e.g. warm water, cold water, freshwater, marine water)
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 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 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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Mar 26 2015
Credit: Louis Landesman (USA) The inserted pictures show a small unit for duckweed production which is located near Hanoi, Vietnam. The unit consists of two small wading pools filled with drinking water and one scoop of biodigester slurry. The water in the two pools have been fertilized with lemna duckweed collected from …
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Mar 22 2015
Video credit: Ahmed Zaki (Egypt) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and video channel) This video was filmed in one of African catfish hatcheries in the Netherlands where the fingerlings of African catch, (Clarias gariepinus) are produced. According to the scattered advertisements, the average size of produced fingerlings is of bout 8-10 …
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Mar 22 2015
Photo credit: David Elliott (UK); http://www.macalister-elliott.com/index.php Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Introduction:The Maldives that consists of a very large of islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a nation that comprises of 99% sea. That is why more than 70% of people …
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Mar 05 2015
This project has been developed by a group of trainees who participated during 2014 in the “Fish Culture Development” training course” which is hosted by the Egyptian International Centre for Agriculture (EICA). The proposed location of this project is Perak River, Malaysia. The proposed project covers the small-scale cage culture. The rationality of the project …
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Mar 03 2015
During my visit to the abalone farm in Monterey, California, I took this picture for this napping sea lion. The abalone grow-out cages are located in the water several meters under the napping animal who reached the farm along with the morning high tide leaving the animal behind in the …
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