Jun 12 2015
Photo credit: Nick James (Rivendell Hatchery – South Africa) Review: Nick James and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted picture shows an earthen fish pond under construction which is located near Bujumbura, Burundi. The average size of the pond in this private farm is 0.5 ha while …
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May 23 2015
Credit: Muhammad Shahid Iqbal (Tawakkal) – Pakistan The inserted photo shows a typical earthen pond in which an Indian carp (Rohu; Labeo rohita) is being cultured. The required fingerlings of rohu are obtained from a hatchery on the facility. This species is popular among consumers in Pakistan. In fact, the rohu farming …
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May 17 2015
Credit: Alain Murekambanze (Burundi) This video belongs to the “Direction du Centre National de Developpement de l’aquaculture et de la Peche Artisanala”- CNDAPA. The video is mainly on-dike lecture with the facilities of the station in the background and. The video contents reach in full the French speakers. However, being English speaker myself, I was …
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Apr 14 2015
Photo credit: Gurgen Khanamirian (Armenia) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) This trout farm shown in the inserted photo is located in the north of Armenia and specializes in growing rainbow trout, brown trout and Sevan trout. Aquaculture represents the key fishery system in Armenia representing around 90% of total fish production …
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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 22 2015
Credit: Patrick Appenteng (Ghana) A break in the supply chain of aquaculture produce will mean a gradual collapse of the industry since its repercussions cannot be desired to look upon. As it is known worldwide, the demand for fish, especially tilapia is very high, hence middle women waste no time in getting their share …
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Feb 18 2015
Video submitted by: Rory Felix Mamani (Bolivia) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel) This short video clip presented very quickly the water quality practices in an earthen pond. Even though, the language of the video Spanish, the contents are easy to follow. The main components shown in the clip are pond …
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Feb 02 2015
Photo credit: MK19 – Fisheries and Aquaculture Production in Reservoirs in Lao PDR Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) Tilapia is among the few species farmed in cages in Laos. In the present, there are already large-scale cage farms with relatively considerable investment which are …
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Jan 27 2015
Credit: Kanwal Odhejo (Pakistan) There are some training organized by the Fisheries department and with collaboration of Non Governmental Organizations for the aquaculture promotion among the rural communities as well as professional fish farmers and fisheries graduates to enhance the capacity building and introduce the …
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Jan 23 2015
Dear Friends,Yesterday (Wednesday, 22 January) was a long field visit which lasted 14 hours since I left Campbell where we stay to Monterey where the abalone projects exist and back to Campbell. The rich information gained through the visit would justify the lengthy hours spent. When …
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