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Fish Culture Development training course – Egypt (2014)

The technical session of the 75-day “Fish Culture Development” training course started in Cairo on the 9th of October, 2014. This annually organized training course is supported by the Egyptian International Centre for Agriculture (EICA). The participants in the 2014 course are Abu Talukder and Zahangir Alam (Bangladesh), Codyo Bertin Ahokin (Benin), Rory Felix (Bolivia), Ana Maria …

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Before hatching embryos of flathead mullet (Mugil cephalus) – Video

Video credit: Ahmed Shaheen (Egypt) Technical review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and video channel) This 1-min video shows embryos of Mugil cephalus prior to hatching. The artificial reproduction of grey mullet has ben attempted and initiated in some Mediterranean countries whereas mullet is an important food fish. The video was filmed …

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Lebsha fishing in Lake Burullus (Egypt) – an effective practice but unfortunately illegal

Photo credit: Magd Al-Bawaab (Egypt) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)   In this briefing I try to describe how some fishermen are practicing this “Lebsha fishing” in Lake Burullus, Egypt and hence I am not discussing the ill-legality of the said practice. In this method, fishermen brings in a biomass of …

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Temporarily crowding of tilapia fingerlings – Video

Video credit: Fadhili Ruzika (Tanzania) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and video channel)   This video was filmed during July 2014 in a private tilapia hatchery in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt. The fingerlings shown in this video are for all-male Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. What could be drawn from the video …

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Crayfish in Egypt from problematic to consumable species – Video

Credit of the video: Innocent Zambou (Cameroon) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and video channel) The red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii was accidently introduced into Egypt in the early 1990s by a private business. That was not very long before some of the animals found their way to natural waterways. In …

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Selective harvest of farmed mullet in Egypt

Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted photos were taken in a fish farm in Egypt whereas the management in this farm is similar to many other farms in Egypt. As shown in the photos, the target species is mullet especially flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus). Usually, in such system, Nile …

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Nile tilapia males (coloration during the breeding season) – Video

Video credit: Ivan Venkonwine Kaleo and Patrick Appenteng (Ghana) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and video channel) This video was filmed during July, 2014 in a private fish farm in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt The video shows a sexually mature male of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) during the spawning season in …

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Sun-drying and trade of shark fins in Egypt

Photo credit: Magd Al-Bawaab (Egypt) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The photo shows the sun-drying of shark fins in Suez, Egypt. Dried fins are exported to South-East countries where the main market of dried shark fins does exist. Over centuries, shark fins soup has been considered a luxury item in Chinese …

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Partial harvest of Indian white shrimp in Egypt – Video

Video credit: Ahmed Shaheen (Egypt) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of channel and website) This video was filmed in a shrimp farm located along Port Said-Damietta road (Egypt) The video shows the partial harvest of the Indian white shrimp (Penaeus indicus). Some farmers adopt the partial harvest mainly for marketing purpose. In this system, …

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Cage culture of silver carp in River Nile in Egypt – Video

Source: www.fishconsult.org Video credit: Fadhili Ruzika (Tanzania) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the site and video channel) This video was taken during May, 2014 in Damietta region (Egypt) The culture of silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix in cages in River Nile, Egypt is a 3-year old practice. Tilapia used to be the principal species …

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