Tag: protein content

Sturgeon nutrition and feeding

Photo credit: Facundo Marquez (Estuario del Plata – Uruguay) Review: Facundo Marquez and Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website)       This photo has been taken in a commercial caviar producing farm in Uruguay. The feed mill shown in the inserted photo belongs to the farm and produced feed and feed ingredients are certified …

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Nutritive value of duckweed and its potential use in fish feed

Photo credit: Khamis killei John (South Sudan) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) This photo was taken in an aquaculture facility in China Introduction: Duckweeds are macrophytes which belong to the Lemnaceae family. They are small green flowering plants which grow as small floating colonies on the surfaces of quiet water bodies. …

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Semi-intensive culture of tilapia in Peru

Credit: Carlos Calderón Deza via: Wilder Rodriguez Arteaga (Peru) In this production system, ponds of acreages from 0.5 to 3 acres are used with water exchange that ranges from 15 to 30% per day of the entire volume of the pond. In this system, aerators are used with aeration intensity that depends on the intensification level (ranges …

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Feeding of whiteleg shrimp, Liptopenaeus vannamei in Thailand

Credit: Wanna Thawinwan (Thailand) The three photos address the shrimp feeding in a typical fish farm in Thailand whereas technical and economic issues are considered. Commercially formulated pelleted feed is used throughout the growing season. The pellet size and so its protein contents vary according to shrimp size as shown in the following Table.   Average …

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Fish feed formulation in Gabon (in French)

Credit: Charles Ibinga Maganga (Gabon) Préparation d’aliment; mélangeur des sous produits: farine de viande « commandé en cote d’ivoire » et  son de blé « SMAG /LBV » + huile de palme « SIAT/Gabon », ici à SODEPAL (Société d’Exploitation du Parc de la Lekedi) au sud-est du Gabon dans une zone rurale (Bakoumba); ainsi donc  pour cet aliment très huileux, il faut …

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