{"id":11239,"date":"2014-08-01T18:11:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T16:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=11239"},"modified":"2014-08-01T18:11:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T16:11:01","slug":"cage-culture-of-nile-tilapia-in-volta-lake-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=11239","title":{"rendered":"Cage culture of Nile tilapia in Volta Lake (Ghana)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Credit:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0Patrick\u00a0Appenteng (Ghana)<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">With the booming of cage aquaculture on the Volta Lake in Ghana, more farms keep springing up with varied technologies and materials for construction. This picture shows plastic gallon-like material used as floats for four (4) cages of dimensions 5m\u00d75m\u00d75m.<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This picture was taken a few meters from the famous Adomi bridge on the Volta Lake in the Asuogyaman District of Ghana; at a suburb called Atimpoku. Stocked species is Nile tilapia, <i>Oreochromis <\/i><i>niloticus.<\/i><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cage-culture-of-Nile-tilapia-in-Lake-Volta-Ghana.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11242\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?attachment_id=11242\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cage-culture-of-Nile-tilapia-in-Lake-Volta-Ghana.jpg?fit=637%2C467&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"637,467\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cage culture of Nile tilapia in Lake Volta (Ghana)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cage-culture-of-Nile-tilapia-in-Lake-Volta-Ghana.jpg?fit=637%2C467&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11242\" alt=\"Cage culture of Nile tilapia in Lake Volta (Ghana)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cage-culture-of-Nile-tilapia-in-Lake-Volta-Ghana-300x219.jpg?resize=300%2C219\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cage-culture-of-Nile-tilapia-in-Lake-Volta-Ghana.jpg?resize=300%2C219&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Cage-culture-of-Nile-tilapia-in-Lake-Volta-Ghana.jpg?w=637&amp;ssl=1 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit:\u00a0Patrick\u00a0Appenteng (Ghana) With the booming of cage aquaculture on the Volta Lake in Ghana, more farms keep springing up with varied technologies and materials for construction. This picture shows plastic gallon-like material used as floats for four (4) cages of dimensions 5m\u00d75m\u00d75m. 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