Aquaculture News from Africa

FAO Donates US$28,873 Worth of Fish Feed

In an effort to ensure that the aquaculture sub sector of the Fisheries industry in Sierra Leone realize its potential the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO has donated a large consignment of Fish Feed worth over US $ 28,000 to Fish Farmers from various parts of the country.

The programme which was organised in partnership with the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources attracted a good number of fish farmers from the North, South and Western regions of the country.

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Fish farming is the way of the future

Fish farming remains the agricultural sector that is under utilised yet it harbours a great potential towards economic diversification.

It is either because aspiring farmers know little about fish farming or they are not aware that it is another sector that can be explored especially because greater opportunities are available in it than in any other agricultural sector.

Even the majority of people around Mmadinare area are not aware of the existence of the fish hatchery, the biggest or possibly the only one in Botswana. It lies in an isolated place past Letsibogo Dam. There is not much activity by people touring the place like one would expect in a national facility like this hatchery, yet officials are there to teach them about fish farming.

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Mossel Bay Tourism up in Arms Over Fish Farm

South Africa - Mossel Bay Tourism is mobilising support to lodge objections in the next three days against environmental approval for a proposed fish farm by Irvine and Johnson (I & J) about 2,5km offshore from the Klein Brak River mouth.

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New Technology to Help Nigeria Meet Fish Demand

NIGERIA - The Federal Government has deployed a simple but “proven” technology to encourage private fish farmers master the art of fingerling production and hatchery in a bid to boost local fish production which presently stands at 600,000 metric tonnes per annum whereas the nation’s fish demand is about 2.66 million metric tonnes.

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Government Constructs Hatcheries in Delta State

NIGERIA - The federal government is constructing two fish hatcheries in Delta state, Dr Ogaranya Tabs-Tabowei, the state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, has said.

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