Jun 04 2014
Credit: Ayman Ammar (Egypt) The photos were photographed in a commercial shrimp farm in Thailand. You may see the action of checking the feeding activity of shrimp and whether the feed placed in the feeding tray shown in the photo was totally consumed or if there is a left-over feed. While checking the status of …
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May 03 2014
Credit: Samart Detsathit (Thailand) Review: Samart Detsathit and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (the site founder) The photo shows a young angler catching a specimen of orange-spotted songkhla, Epinephelus coioides in Lake Songkhla, Thailand. This lake is largest natural lake in Thailand, located on the Malay Peninsula in the southern part of the country. The lake covers an area of about …
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Apr 20 2014
Credit for the photo and the essential information: Samart Detsathit (Thailand) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (the site founder) The sand crab or mole crab which are known as “Hippoids” belong to the super family “Hippoidea”. These small crabs of 1-5 cm in size are adopted to burrow into sandy beaches near the water throughout …
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Apr 19 2014
Photo credit: Deepak Bhusal (Nepal) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (the founder of the site) The photos are taken in the biggest market in Thailand for ornamental fish, plants, and aquarium supplies. The market is located at Chatuchak market area in Bangkok. While there is a time allocated for wholesale business, and for everyone with …
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Mar 26 2014
Photo credit: Wanna Thawinwan (Thailand) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal General: The Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas is the world’s largest freshwater fish which is native to the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. It is also called giant Mekong catfish and also “Pla Beuk” in the Thai language. There are records about specimens of the …
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Sep 29 2013
Credit: Worawut Koedprang (Thailand) The green mussel, Perna viridis is the most important species cultured along the coast of Thailand. It contributes around 62% (about 193,000 tons) of shell fish production and around 21% of total brackish water aquaculture production. At present, all seed used in green mussel aquaculture is naturally obtained. Green mussels are cultivated by extending …
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Sep 29 2013
Credit: Worawut Koedprang (Thailand) Blood cockle contributes by around 27% (82,000 tons) of shell fish production and about 9% of total brackish water aquaculture production. For extensive culture, blood cockle seeds are collected from the wild, but since 1973, spats of Anadara granosa have been imported from Malaysia to overcome the shortage of natural supply …
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Sep 29 2013
Credit for the cage photo: Samart Detsathit (Thailand) Credit for the species photo: Worawut Koedprang (Thailand) Review: Samarat, Worawut and Abdel Rahman El Gamal The culture of grouper in floating net cages is primarily undertaken in in the southern and eastern provinces of Thailand. The main species of cultured groupers are Epinephelus coioides and Epinephelus …
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Sep 20 2013
This type of hatcheries looked attractive to particular segment of producers who target profitable and small-scale operations especially when could be operated by family members whenever possible. Backyard hatcheries were able during 1980s to provide the required numbers of post larvae to freshwater prawn farms. The attached photos were taken during my visit to Thailand …
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Sep 07 2013
Photo credit: Wanna Thawinwan (Thailand) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal Snakehead is one of the most common staple food fishes in Thailand. The decline in the harvests of wild snakehead, due to overfishing along with other reasons were behind the interest in farming snakehead in Thailand especially …
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