Category: Cage farming

This category covers all types of cages whether the small ones that are used in rural development programs or the commercial cages that are used in freshwater or in marine waters. A larger number of species are cultured in such cages depending on the farming environment.

Cage aquaculture of tilapia in Zambia

Photos’ credit: Alick Grunnie Mbewe (Zambia) Review: Alick Grunnie Mbewe  and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)         The inserted photos show Cage fish farming in Lumwana Dam in Solwezi District. This consists of 12 cages measuring 12 m X8 m X2 m deep. The promotion of tilapia cage aquaculture …

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Cage farming of grouper in Khanh Hoa, (Vietnam)

Photo credit: Han Huong (Vietnam) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)       Cage culture of grouper (Epinephelus sp.) in Vietnam has witnessed a rapid expansion throughout the 1990s in a number of provinces including Khanh Hoa in the south central of Vietnam whereas fixed and floating cages have been used. Grouper …

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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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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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Cage culture of tilapia in River Nile in Egypt – Video

This video was filmed during October 2014 in the River Nile, Damietta region. Video credit: Willy Oviedo (Uruguay)       Typically, freshwater cages in Egypt has a surface area of 100m2 (10×10 m) with a depth of about 5 meters. Cage farmers gained enough experience in cage construction and management. The floats used in …

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Feeding caged salmon – Video

Video credit and permitted by: The Scottish Salmon Company In this 1:30-min video, I would like to draw your attention to the monitoring system which allows the farm management to watch feeding activity in each cage and this would certainly help avoid overfeeding with its economics and environmental consequences.    

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Maintenance of cages in Lake Volta, Asuogyaman, (Ghana)

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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Cage culture of sturgeon in Uruguay

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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Rationality and impacts of underwater lighting on fish production in cages

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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Tuna caught in Libya and grown in Italy

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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