Video credit:Juan Martin Canturin Garcia (Peru) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel and website) African catfish, Clarias gariepinuswas introduced from Africa to Brazil for aquaculture in 1986. However, the meat of catfish was not accepted well among consumers and hence the farming of the species is limited and its commercial farming …
Category: Farmed species
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)
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Nov 02 2014
Eco-friendly commercial cage tilapia farm in Temenggor Lake, Malaysia
Credit: Vui Kien Liew (Malaysia) Review: Vui Kien Liew and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted photos have been taken in a state-of-art commercial cage farm for tilapia. The farm was set up in 2008 as an eco-friendly aquaculture facility and operates within an Industrial Aquaculture Zone in Temenggor Lake in …
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Nov 01 2014
Sistema Policultivo Bocachico (Prochilodus magdalenae) – Tilapia roja (Oreochromis sp.), apoyado en TIC (in Spanish)
Credit: Ana Maria Melendez (Colombia) Generalidades: proceso de producción (A, Melendez, Universidad Simón Bolívar – Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje, SENA Colombia. 2010), con distribución en paralelo para el engorde del Bocachico en corrales de tierra, combinado con el cultivo de Tilapia Roja, a alta densidad, en Jaulas suspendidas de bajo volumen. Complementado con el desarrollo …
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Oct 27 2014
Liming shrimp ponds in Thailand
Credit for the photos: Ahmed Shaheen (Egypt) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) A relatively recent farm survey (NACA, 1996) revealed that about 90% of Thai shrimp farmers spray lime to tackle the low pH associated problems especially those related to health and survival of farmed shrimp. The application of lime …
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Oct 23 2014
How to harvest European seabass from off-shore cages in Spain- Video
Video credit: Ahmed Shaheen (Egypt) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel and website) The video shows the process of the harvesting of European seabass (Dicentrachus labrax) grown in off-shore cages in Spain. The first part of the video shows the crowding of harvested fish while the last part of the video …
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Oct 22 2014
Feeding grass carp on paddy in a facility in Pakistan
Credit: Muhammad Shahid Iqbal (Tawakkal)- Pakistan The facility in which the photo has been taken is in a fish hatchery whereas grass carp is reproduced. The plant shown in the photo is paddy. The plant is provided once daily for the grass carp of 2-3 kg average size. In this particular pond, grass carp is …
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Oct 22 2014
Value chain of fish harvest from cage farms in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana
Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana) One of the pictures shows fish farmers bringing the harvested fish from their cages using a local planked canoe of about 6-m in length. The cage farms (seen behind the canoes) are located in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana where aquaculture is relatively predominant. The second photo shows carrying harvested fish to be …
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Oct 22 2014
Use of snail meat in shrimp feeding in Vietnam- Video
Video credit: Ahmed Shaheen (Egypt) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) This video was filmed in a shrimp operation in Vietnam The practice of feeding snail meat to farmed shrimp in many Asian countries has been a popular and widely used practice in Asian countries. The driving force behind the use of …
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Oct 20 2014
Tilapia sampling in a fish pond at Mkuranga District, Tanzania
Credit: Fadhili Ruzika (Tanzania) The photos show a privately owned tilapia fish pond located at Mkuranga District, Coastal Region. It is apparently that this particular pond was over-fertilized that resulted in dense plankton bloom which required water exchange. The second photo shows the sampling of tilapia in that day.
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Oct 19 2014
Production of YY super male of Nile tilapia (a diagram)
This 1-page diagram describes the production of the YY super male of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). When the YY male is mated with normal females of Nile tilapia, the progeny should be all-males. The mass production of YY males has been described in the diagram. Note: although this diagram can be used independently, the diagram …
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