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A fishery survey crew from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources on August 30 pulled a 56.5-pound, 44-inch flathead catfish from a hoop net in the Susquehanna River less than a mile downriver of the Pennsylvania-Maryland state line, according to Brett Coakley, fisheries biologist with the department. That's more than 8 pounds heavier than the largest flathead catfish recorded by an angler in Pennsylvania.

Experience indicates that the grade of water in fish farming isn't just in its cleanness and clearness. Other properties of water has through the years been revealed to be of special benefit for the appropriate digestion and absorption of feed by the fish which can be of the same level worth addressing as the grade of the feed itself. Listed here are the major properties of water good for the fish farmer:

There has been hot debates amongst farmers as to which of these two gives the optimal growth yet economical. A lot of independent researchers who are not affiliated with either floating feed or sinking feed producers have come up with overwhelming results(field findings) of their findings. Findings show that there is no significant difference in growth performance of clarias gariepinus fed with either sinking pellet or floating feed. (Google is our friend)

Top 5 important water quality parameters we should all watch out for.  1. Dissolved Oxygen issues and how its affect respiration in fish and digestion of feed ingested 2. pH level of water and how high and low pH retard fish growth and affect other water parameters. 3. Ammonia build up in water and how its irritate fish and encourage the growth of diseases causing organisms.

1. Access to good quality and enough quantity of water supply. 2. Access to good quality brood stock for breeding and stocking or quality fish seed for stocking. 3. Type of pond, sizes of pond and management structures. 4. Level of feed input 5. Specie of fish and market value

The business of catfish farming in Nigeria is not difficult to engage yourself in if you have the resources to do so. Catfish farming involves growing catfish to table-size, marketing them and selling them at a good price. It is a viable business that many people have gone in and out of for various reasons. Some have succeeded at it and made handsome profit while others have failed and abandoned it altogether.

  Zooplankton Zooplankton is a microscopic animal, which means sometimes it may be difficult to see them very clearly with the naked eyes , but when held closely in a bowl you will see them moving especially when thy are large in numbers  As a group of tiny water  animals they feed on free  microscopic algae (Phytoplankton ) in the water and they reproduce in Millon's within 24hour.

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Industrial fisheries - 600,000MT/year Artisanal fisheries - 19,000MT/year Aquaculture -78,0000MT/year The figures above is the present status of fisheries in Nigeria. Appraising the industrial subsector of the fisheries industry, the onset of the economic recession reduced buying power from 800,000MT (2015) to 600,000MT.

 My name still remains Dr Fish working now for AfriSmat Farms, Lagos.  I term broodstock fish as fish having unique qualities that are desirable for mating. Care and management of broodstock starts before use in breeding. First broodstock must be feed with good quality feed (32 percent for males n 38/40percent for females )  They should be feed daily and vitamins  C, folic acid should be introduced into there water after each water change. Continue reading after the page break.