This category includes various aquaculture systems and facilities such as earthen ponds, tanks, cages, pens, raceways and others. The farming practices are also covered including integration, rotation, pond preparation, sampling, harvesting, fertilization, aeration, post-harvest and others.
Jun 12 2015
Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana) As cage aquaculture continues to boom in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana, more and more people get employment in diverse fields. The insert shows a diver in a private cage farm in Lake Volta. His work primarily is to dive into the lake to check the conditions of the cages. This …
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Apr 26 2015
Credit: Facundo Marquez (Estuario del Plata – Uruguay) Review: Facundo Marquez and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The two photos show the river culture of sturgeon in cages in Uruguay. Cages used are square where each cage measures 6m x 6m x 3m depth. The three species/varieties of sturgeon are: …
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Apr 21 2015
Photo credit: AKVA Group Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The Underwater lighting when practiced in a given aquaculture operation is often adapted for fast growing species such as salmon, trout, cod and others. In fact, the use of submerged artificial lighting during-night hours is steadily gaining more interests in …
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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 15 2015
Photo credit:Abu Sayed Talukder and Zahangir Alam (Bangladesh) Review:Abu Sayed Talukder & Zahangir Alam (Bangladesh) and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted pictures were taken in a training session conducted at a fish farmer’s village in Gaibandha Sadar Upazila, District “Gaibandha”. Most of the course participants are …
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Mar 08 2015
This project has been developed by a group of trainees who participated during 2014 in the “Fish Culture Development” training course” which is annually hosted by the Egyptian International Centre for Agriculture (EICA). The proposed location of this project is Solwezi District, Zambia. The proposed project covers the integration between aquaculture with two agricultural systems …
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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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Feb 18 2015
Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana) Most of the cage aquaculture in Ghana is practiced in Lake Volta in the Asuogyaman District of the Eastern region. As cage aquaculture continues to boom in this district, more and more people get employment in diverse fields. The insert shows the sowing of cage nets which is done …
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