{"id":6945,"date":"2012-11-03T17:40:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2014-08-04T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T13:09:13","slug":"culture-of-african-catfish-hybrid-clarias-sp-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=6945","title":{"rendered":"Culture of African catfish hybrid (Clarias sp.) in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Worawut Koedprang (Thailand)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong>\u00a0Worawut Koedprang and Abdel Rahman El Gamal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">African catfish (<em>Clarias<\/em> sp.) is considered a key farmed species in Thailand. The hybrid catfish (<em>Clarias macrocephalus &#8211; <\/em>female\u00a0X\u00a0<em>Clarias gariepinus &#8211; <\/em>male) has been favored for aquaculture because of it high growth rate compared to parent species. While <em>Clarias macrocephalus <\/em>(left photo) is\u00a0\u00a0native to Southeast Asia, the <em>Clarias gariepinus<\/em><em> <\/em>(right photo) was<em>\u00a0<\/em>introduced into Thailand a long time ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong>We decided not to watermark the photos in order not to upset its clarity. However, we trust you will notify us if you wish to use a picture or more. This is expected and will be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/African-catfish-hybrid.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6948\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?attachment_id=6948\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/African-catfish-hybrid.jpg?fit=960%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" 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=\"African catfish hybrid\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/African-catfish-hybrid.jpg?fit=750%2C563&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6948\" title=\"African catfish hybrid\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/African-catfish-hybrid-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/African-catfish-hybrid.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/African-catfish-hybrid.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit:\u00a0Worawut Koedprang (Thailand) Description:\u00a0Worawut Koedprang and Abdel Rahman El Gamal African catfish (Clarias sp.) is considered a key farmed species in Thailand. The hybrid catfish (Clarias macrocephalus &#8211; female\u00a0X\u00a0Clarias gariepinus &#8211; male) has been favored for aquaculture because of it high growth rate compared to parent species. While Clarias macrocephalus (left photo) is\u00a0\u00a0native to Southeast &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=6945\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[307,359,11,291,293],"tags":[144,2784,320,2780,2783,2781,53,2782,366],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-catfish-farmed-species-aquaculture-and-artisanal-fishery-global-information-sharing","category-aquaculture-and-artisanal-fishery-global-information-sharing","category-english","category-gallery-2","category-photos","tag-african-catfish","tag-catfish-introduction","tag-clarias-gariepinus","tag-clarias-macrocephalus","tag-hybrid-growth-rate","tag-hybrid-vigor","tag-hybridization","tag-popularity-of-hybrid","tag-thailand","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1NIq6-1O1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11457,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/11457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}