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A review of aquaculture production and health management practices of farmed fish in Kenya
Type: Journal Article
This paper reviews aquaculture production systems and fish health management practices in Kenya in order to establish and document actions needed to monitor, mitigate and regulate effectively for future fish health problems ...
Annual report 2013/2014
Type: Report
Improving the productivity of fisheries and aquaculture is vital to reducing hunger and poverty for millions of people in the developing world. Today, fish provides more than one billion poor people with most of their daily ...
Feed the Future Sierra Leone Agriculture Project
Type: Brief
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Feed the Future Sierra Leone Agriculture Project supports the development of rice and fish farming systems to increase productivity and improve food and ...
Echinacea purpurea and Allium sativum as immunostimulants in fish culture using Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Type: Journal Article
This study aimed to evaluate and compare the efficiency of echinacea and garlic-supplemented diets as immunostimalants after different periods of application and after 4-month of withdrawal on some haematological and ...
Fecundity, growth parameters and survival rate of three African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) strains under hatchery condition
Type: Journal Article
Three strains of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) from the Netherlands (Dutch), Indonesia and Kenya (Lake Victoria) were studied in hatchery conditions to compare their fecundity, growth performance and survival rates.
Cultured fish: integrative biology and management of domestication and interactions with wild fish
Type: Journal Article
Fish aquaculture for commodity production, fisheries enhancement and conservation is expanding rapidly, with many cultured species undergoing inadvertent or controlled domestication. Cultured fish are frequently released, ...
WorldFish in Tanzania
Type: Brief
Fisheries are an important source of food, income and nutrition in Tanzania, where 25% of the country's population depends on coastal resources or inland lakes for their livelihoods. Over 180,000 people are employed in the ...
Targeting agricultural research and extension for food security and poverty alleviation: a case study of fish farming in Central Cameroon
Type: Journal Article
Over 5 years of participatory on-farm research, market access, profitability, farming systems productivity and economic sustainability were compared on 100 small-scale farms in Central Cameroon. Integration technology based ...
Farmed tilapia: A nutritious food source for Egypt
Type: Poster
Infographic on farmed tilapia as a nutritious food source in Egypt.
Value chain analysis of the aquaculture feed sector in Egypt
Type: Journal Article
This study was carried out to evaluate the value chain performance of the aquaculture feed sector in Egypt, in terms of value addition, employment and profitability. The strengths and weaknesses of each link of the value ...