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Inland aquaculture : Vietnamese catfish – better management practices update
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| Posted on 10/6/2010 (1169 reads) |
A number of farmers have volunteered to trial the draft better management practices (BMPs) developed by the catfish BMP project, for the purpose of evaluation and demonstration. The draft BMPs were developed following extensive surveys of industry practice and stakeholder meetings convened by the project team in October 2009 in Cao Lanh City, Dong Thap Province (Chaired by Provincial Agricultural Office and the Director RIA 2, Dr. Nguyen Van Hao), and in Can Tho City (Chaired by Professor Nguyen Than Phuong of Can Tho University).
Eleven ‘BMP demonstration farms’ have been setup in partnership between farmers and the project team and are about three months into the six-month production cycle. These include seven grow out farms (three in Can Tho, one each in An Giang, Hau Giang, Vinh Long and Dong Thap), three nurseries (two in Dong Thap, one in Can Tho) and on hatchery in An Giang. |
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Inland aquaculture : Giant Prawn 2011
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| Posted on 17/3/2010 (2672 reads) |
 Giant Prawn 2011 will be held as a component of next year's Asian-Pacific Aquaculture 2011 conference, 17-20 January, in Kochi, India. Giant Prawn 2011 will be a landmark opportunity to review the status of freshwater prawn farming worldwide and discuss the future of this $2 billion industry. The meeting will include field trips to freshwater prawn farming sites on 21-22 January.
The scientific programme for Giant Prawn 2011 consists of a three-day invited paper session (18-20 January), plus a one-day parallel session for contributed papers on freshwater prawn farming (date to be announced later). Speakers include Nesar Ahmed (Bangladesh), Janet Brown (UK), Michael Frinsko (USA), Ilan Karplus (Israel), Spencer Malecha (Hawai’i), Peter Mather (Australia), C. Mohanakumuran Nair (India), M.C. Nandeesha (India), Uthairat Na-Nakorn (Thailand), Michael New (UK), Nguyen Thanh Phuong (Vietnam), K.R. Salin (India), Amir Sagi (Israel), James Tidwell (USA), Wagner Valenti (Brazil), Patricia Moraes-Valenti (Brazil), Md. Abdul Wahab (Bangladesh) and Miao Weimin (China). Discussions about the contributions of several further invited speakers are on-going. The topics to be presented in the invited session of GP2011 include biology, genetics, grow-out and hatchery rearing technology, health management, and post-harvest handling, marketing and economics.
The brochure for Asian-Pacific Aquaculture 2011 (incorporating Giant Prawn 2011) will shortly be available from the World Aquaculture Society. This brochure will explain the procedures for registration and issue a call for papers for both events. Selected GP2011 papers will be considered for a special issue of the journal Aquaculture Research after the conference.
The parent Asian-Pacific Aquaculture 2011 meeting will also provide the usual rainbow of conference topics and social events, together with an important exhibition. Those who attended the last event organised by this chapter in Kuala Lumpur will already know how successful it was.
GP2011 will be a very important event for all those involved in freshwater prawn farming, research and marketing. Mark your calendars and make your travel plans for January 2011 now! |
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Inland aquaculture : Expert Workshop on Inland Fisheries Resource Enhancement and Conservation in Asia
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| Posted on 18/2/2010 (2024 reads) |
Over the past few decades inland fisheries resources have come under increasing pressure from water engineering projects, pollution and overfishing. This has lead to an alarming decline in the natural populations of many important inland fish species in Asian countries, with implications for the economic welfare and nutrition of millions of people that are dependant on these resources, for the environment, and also for the aquaculture industry that depends on the genetic resource base. Regional collaborative efforts are required to facilitate assessment of current inland fisheries resource enhancement and conservation practices, and there are transboundary coordination issues for countries that share rivers.
FAO and NACA convened an expert workshop to review inland fisheries resource enhancement and conservation practices in Pattaya, Thailand, 8-11 February. Experts from 10 Asian countries attended the meeting to share experiences and lessons learned. The papers and synthesis from the workshop will be published by FAO in due course, but in the meantime audio recordings of the workshop presentations are available for download below (MP3 format), or you can stream them from our server if you prefer to listen online. Country presentations on inland fisheries enhancement and conservation practices are available for:
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Inland aquaculture : Workshops on development of better management practices for catfish farming in the Mekong Delta organised in Vietnam
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| Posted on 19/10/2009 (1737 reads) |
Two workshops on the Development of better management practices for catfish farming in the Mekong Delta were organised at the Dong Thap Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cao Lanh district, Dong Thap Province and the Can Tho University, Can Tho City on 5-6 and 8-9 October 2009, respectively.
The two meetings brought together catfish farmers, district and provincial officials, representatives from the Ministry of the Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), processors and other stakeholders associated with the sector from the nearby provinces. At the meeting, draft better management practices (BMPs) for three sub-sectors, ie. catfish growth-out, hatchery and nursery operations, were presented and discussed in detail and the responses of the stakeholders obtained. The draft BMPs had been prepared based on an extensive survey of industry practices under the project Development of Better Management Practices for Catfish Aquaculture in the Mekong Delta, funded by AusAID. |
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Inland aquaculture : Promoting small-scale inland aquaculture in Papua New Guinea
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| Posted on 4/10/2009 (2242 reads) |
By Peter Edwards
Papua New Guinea (PNG) comprises the eastern half of the world’s largest tropical island with a total land area approaching 500,000 km2 and is located to the north of Australia. Almost 90% of the population are subsistence farmers living in fertile highland valleys at altitudes between 1,500-2,500 m. Malnutrition is widespread with about 35% of children underweight. The isolation of communities caused by the mountainous terrain led to the evolution of more than 800 languages and some of the more remote human groups were only discovered in the 1930s. The mountainous landscape also severely hinders the development of infrastructure, including roads, and therefore constrains farmers attempting to grow fish from obtaining institutional support; seed, fertiliser and feed; and marketing fish surplus to household needs. Right; Small-scale fish ponds constructed in a valley with banana and sweet potato crops in teh foreground. |
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Inland aquaculture : Floodplain aquaculture in Begumgonj: New horizon for rural livelihoods in Bangladesh
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| Posted on 28/9/2009 (2004 reads) |
Hossain, M. S.
Aquaculture activities have been improved significantly in recent years, although emphasis has been largely placed on increasing production targets. The socio-economic benefits derived from aquaculture expansion include the provision of nutrients, employment and income generation for the poor, diversification of production and generation of foreign exchange earnings through export of high-valued products. Aquaculture also has the potential to compensate or substitute for stagnation of capture fisheries. It can also be a force for the prevention and control of pollution since production depends on the availability of good-quality water resources. Right; Seasonal floodplain of Begumgonj, Noakhali, Bangladesh.
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Inland aquaculture : Contrasting community management and revenue sharing practices of culture-based fisheries in Lao PDR
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| Posted on 22/9/2009 (1694 reads) |
Saphakdy, B., Phomsouvanh, A., Davy, B.,
Nguyen, T.T.T. and De Silva, S.S.
Culture-based fisheries (CBF), a practice that utilises small water bodies, for the secondary purpose of increasing the food fish production far in excess of what is potentially achievable through natural recruitment, is gaining momentum in the region. CBF is environmentally friendly, using seed stock as the main external input, and that too of species that are mostly indigenous to the area or sometimes exotics that have been locally used over a long period of time1. It is essentially a stock and re-capture strategy in communal water bodies that are primarily utilised for irrigation of downstream paddy cultivation, where management is through community participation and engagement. The type of water body most suited for CBF is generally small, 3 to 15 ha in size, with a regime that holds water for six to eight months in the year and gradually dries up almost completely. Right; Communal harvesting taking place in Nong Sod village pond, Thongvane village, Paksan district, Borikhamxay province (type two community management) |
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Inland aquaculture : Better management practices for tra catfish farming
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| Posted on 4/9/2009 (2983 reads) |
In October two stakeholder meetings will discuss draft better management practices (BMPs) for tra catfish farming. The draft BMPs have been developed to mitigate risks identified in a detailed survey and risk assessment of 97 catfish farms in the Mekong Delta. The survey was carried out under an AusAID-funded project Development of Better Management Practices for Catfish Aquaculture in the Mekong Delta. An English version of the draft catfish BMP document is available for download.
The stakeholder meetings are planned for 5-6 and 8-9 October in Dong Thap and Can Tho provinces respectively. Both meetings will bring together farmers from the neighbouring provinces and districts, processors, other service providers and provincial and district officials as well as representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. It is expected that the two stakeholder meetings will discuss practical aspects and reach a consensus on a final set of better management practices. As a follow up activity, the meetings will also discuss steps to set up demonstration farms and form collaborative farmer groups or associations to enhance the effectiveness of BMP implementation. |
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Inland aquaculture : Vulnerability & adaption to climate change impacts on catfish farming - case study Can Tho, Vietnam
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| Posted on 27/8/2009 (2006 reads) |
The Mekong Delta is the ‘food basket’ of Vietnam, and is of significance both from a production (volume and economic) and livelihood view points. Vietnam is prone to extreme weather events. Cyclones regularly impact Vietnam raising sea levels and sending saline storm surges up estuaries. Flooding is also a common occurrence. Vietnam, particularly the Mekong delta is highly vulnerable to climate change especially extreme weather events.
Catfish farming on the Mekong Delta is one of the world’s fastest growing aquaculture sectors and is Vietnam’s largest aquaculture sector by both volume and value.
Catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) is a freshwater fish native to the Mekong river system (including Vietnam) that is cultured almost entirely in deep earthen ponds at very high density. The catfish farming industry and associated industries contributes significantly to the livelihoods of the local population. |
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