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close this bookBetter Farming Series 38 - Better Freshwater Fish Farming: Raising Fish in Pens and Cages (FAO, 1990, 83 p.)
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View the document(introduction...)
View the documentBuilding a cage
View the documentCarrying small fish
View the documentPutting baby fish into your cage
View the documentFeeding fish in cages
View the documentTaking care of the fish and cage
View the documentHarvesting fish in cages
View the documentNow you must begin again
View the documentRaising your own baby fish in cages

(introduction...)

124. You can build a cage and put it in a stream, a river, a lake or a reservoir.


Stream or river


Lake


Reservoir

125. In addition, as you have already been told, you can put a cage in a fish pond.

Note If you have a fish pond and decide to put in some cages, you will raise many more fish. For example, a pond of 20 by 20 metres (400 square metres) will hold 800 fish. If you also put in 3 cages of 1 cubic metre each, you can raise 450 to 600 more fish. So, in this case you can raise as many as 1400 fish in the same pond.


Pond

3 cages
1 x 1 x 1 m
= 450 to 600 fish
800 + 600 = 1 400 fish in all

126. The water should be deep enough so that when the cage is in place it will be at least 50 centimetres from the bottom.


Cage

127. A cage should be in a place where the flow of water is gentle and not fast. In addition, it should be protected from the wind.

128. The water should be clean You should not put a cage too near an inlet where the water may be muddy or full of rubbish.