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Producing tilapia in small cage in West Africa
Type: Manual
This document is part of a series of 5 technical manuals produced by the Challenge Program Project CP34 “Improved fisheries productivity and management in tropical reservoirs”. The Water Research Institute (WRI) in Akosombo, ...
A simple and inexpensive fish tagging method
Type: Journal Article
In many developing countries, availability of suitable tags for use in genetics and aquaculture research has been a problem as they are often expensive and have to be imported from other countries. A simple and inexpensive ...
Production parameters and economics of small-scale tilapia cage aquaculture in the Volta Lake, Ghana
Type: Journal Article
To calculate the potential for cage aquaculture to create economic opportunities for small-scale investors on the Volta Lake, Ghana, a local NGO with technical support from the Government of Ghana ran two trials (one of ...
Characterization of Ghanaian tilapia genetic resources for use in fisheries and aquaculture
Type: Conference Proceedings
Summary proceedings of a four-day workshop held on 4-7 June 1996, Accra, Ghana. Includes presentations, discussions and recommendations on developing techniques for characterizing tilapia genetic resources and utilizing ...
A biochemical laboratory manual for species characterization of some tilapiine fishes
Type: Brief
This publication is both a manual for the biochemical analysis of several tissues of tilapias and an empirical demonstration of the methods for several species. Given the great and growing importance of tilapia in aquaculture ...
Fisheries potential of village dams in northern Ghana
Type: Journal Article
Results of a twelve-month assessment of the fisheries and aquaculture potential of small waterbodies (SWBs) in the West Gonja District of Northern Ghana are presented. The primary objectives of the project were to established ...