Tilapia fish taste better when given natural food
Tilapia fishes were found tastier when these are given natural food than commercial fish feeds.
This was the contention of fishery officials in Cagayan Valley as they spearheaded a recent training on 45-day delayed feeding technology.
Hermogenes Tambalque III, extension chief of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, said this new technology aims to cut expenses of fishpond operators on commercial feeds, which, according to studies, account for as much as 70 percent to 80 percent of total production cost. Read more
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Fischtechnik International Engineering GmbH (FTIE) from Austria has recently conducted a successful grading trial for African catfish and can now recommend its own grading machines for use with the species.
African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) are robust, grow rapidly and have modest requirements concerning protein levels in feed or water quality.
In particular the species’ ability to breathe a certain amount of atmospheric oxygen makes higher population concentrations possible without the need for technical oxygen or complex water aeration.
All these factors make the African catfish a popular species for use in commercial aquaculture. Read more
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The Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry is set to increase the national fish production from the current 270,000 tonnes to 507,000 tonnes by 2010.
Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said today that to achieve this, the government would hav eto increase the nation’s annual aquaculture production by at least 25 per cent for the next two years to stabilise the depleting marine fish resources.
“Malaysia depends too much on the marine sources with 86 per cent compared with 14 per cent from the aquaculture industry, while other countries take up to 60 per cent from their aquaculture industry and only 40 per cent of marine fish.”
He said this after launching the business prospectus and Seminar on High-Impact Projects in Aquaculture Industrial Zone here.
On another development, Mustapa said he and Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui were mulling over a proposal for fertilisers to be made a controlled item.
He said the price of fertilisers would also be reduced by 15 per cent next month as agreed by the fertiliser producers recently.
This article is courtesy of http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=379260
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Salmon aquaculture is devastating the world’s oceans and an international coalition of scientists, Canadian First Nations and tourism operators have called for a global moratorium.
“We’ve seen a regional collapse of all sea life in the 20 years since the salmon farms moved in,” Chief Bob Chamberlin of the Kwicksutaineuk Ah-kwa-mish Canadian First Nation in the province of British Columbia on Canada’s west coast told Stephen Leahy for InterPress Service.
“I can only shake my head in bewilderment that this is allowed to continue,” Chamberlin told IPS from Gilford Island in the Broughton Archipelago, where 20 salmon farms are in operation.
Scientific studies have linked sharp declines in wild salmon populations in British Columbia to disease and parasites originating in open-ocean salmon farms. Millions of non-native salmon have escaped ocean net-pens in Chile and have become an invasive species, transforming the ecology of local river systems.
These and other unsustainable practices violate the United Nations code on Responsible Fisheries, claims the coalition from Norway, Canada, Chile, Scotland and Ireland. An international declaration has been submitted to the UN calling for a global moratorium.
There is little debate that salmon aquaculture is both unsustainable and environmentally destructive. Three or more kilogrammes of wild fish are needed to produce one kilo of farmed salmon. The ocean bottoms under and around the open-ocean net pen
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Tilapia is a firm fish, which means it is a more versatile fish. Other, more delicate fish with more pronounced self-esteem issues break down easily upon cooking, flaking apart at even the most mild fork-related provocation.
But it is an immigrant to these shores, and should be made to feel at home. The way to do that is to introduce it to what is perhaps our greatest of comfort foods – tomato soup. Read more
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Successive government in the country both the military and the civilian have evolved one programme or the other all intended to ensure the sustainability of food production not only for domestic consumption, but also for export, particularly when considered against the backdrop that until the discovering of oil in commercial quantity, Agriculture was the mainstay of the country and a major source of revenue.
Such programmes include; the “Operation Feed the Nation” enunciated by Obasanjo regime in 1976, “Green Revolution” by Shehu Shagari’s administration in 1980 and Directorate of Food, Road and Rural Infrastructure DFRI, conceptualized by General Ibrahim Babangida all aimed at ensuring food sufficiency and security in the country. Read more
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President of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON), Mrs. Foluke Areola, has said Nigeria imported 739,700 tonnes of frozen fish worth $650.53 million in 2007. Areola said in Lagos, that the figure was lower than the 800,000 tones imported in 2006.
She said the bulk of the supply came from Europe, Asia, South Pacific, South America and some African countries, stating that “Scandinavia also supplies about 160,000 tonnes of stockfish worth more than $400 million annually”.
According to her, official statistics indicate that Nigeria’s demand for imported frozen fish, especially mackerel, herring and croaker, is growing. Areola said 90 per cent of frozen fish in the country were sold at local markets, while the remaining 10 per cent were sold at supermarkets and other outlets. “The combination of low domestic production and increasing incomes is driving demand for import,” she said.
Areola also said the Federal Government was collaborating with stakeholders to boost aquaculture and fish production in the country.
“Catfish and Tilapia are the major species farmed by local fish farmers, deep sea shrimp farming is growing but most of this is sold for export and not consumed domestically,” she stated.
The FISON chief said Nigeria was re-certified to export shrimps to the United States in 2007, saying the country’s shrimps were in high demand in Europe and America.
This article is courtesy of http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=129496
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Aquaponics: Can expansion of fish farms place tremendous pressure on already imperiled wild salmon
A coalition of environmental groups is sounding the alarm about the provincial government allowing some fish farm operators to greatly increase the size of their operations.
The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform has received information that fish farm companies are seeking approval to roughly “double current licensed production on several farms in critical wild salmon migration routes such as the Broughton Archipelago and the northern Georgia Strait,” said Catherine Stewart of Living Oceans Society, one of the organizations in CAAR. Read more
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Department of Fisheries Malaysia director-general Datuk Junaidi Che Ayub said Malaysia was the second largest producer of ornamental fish and breeds more than half of the 550 local and exotic varieties. Last year, the industry was worth RM192 million.
“This industry offers attractive returns on investment to the breeders as the overall production cost is low,” he said during the soft launch of the Aquafair Malaysia 2008 exhibition at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park. Read more
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The project is part of the East Coast Economic Regions (ECER) efforts to boost the country’s freshwater aquaculture industry, the ECER said in a statement here today.
The MoA includes the purchase of 20-40 containers of Patin per month from KPKKB and will generate an income of between RM80-100 million per year. Read more
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