Better Farming Series 27 - FreshWater Fish Farming: How to Begin (FAO, 1979, 43 p.): Harvesting your fish: What to do with your baby fish

Better Farming Series 27 - FreshWater Fish Farming: How to Begin (FAO, 1979, 43 p.)

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Preface

Plan of work

Introduction

What is fish farming?

Why do we raise fish?

What do you need to raise fish?

How do we begin?

The pond

Where to put your fish pond

Compost to fertilize your pond

How to dig your pond

The water

Filling your pond

Fertilizing the water in the pond

How to make compost

Putting the fish into your pond

Feeding your fish

Taking care of your pond

Harvesting your fish

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What to do with your baby fish

What to do with your big fish

Now you must begin again

99. As soon as you find baby fish, put them gently into containers with clean water.

Put the baby fish into containers

100. You will need these baby fish to put back into your pond to begin again. Baby fish are the fish farmer's seed.

101. Keep them in clean water, out of the sun, and move the water around gently with your hand from time to time.

102. If it takes more than half a day to make your pond ready to put back the baby fish, you should keep them alive in a special small pond nearby.

103. The small pond can be a simple hole in the ground about two metres square. You should have it ready before you begin to harvest.

Use a little pond

104. When moving your baby fish from one pond to the other, be very careful not to hurt them.