Tilapia farming methods in Mozambique

by Dr Gianluigi Negroni, ALVEO S.c.a.r.l, Italy

The main species farmed is in Mozambique is Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), in addition Tilapia mossambicus is more suited to the environment in this country due to better resistance to disease and the difficult conditions present in said area. Tilapia is the common name for a vast number of freshwater fishes of the family Cichlid.
 

This is one of the largest families of fishes, containing more than 1,800 members, some of them in use in aquaculture. Members of the family range from very small ornamental species used in the aquarium industry to large food-size species rose in the fish-farming industry.

Tilapia hatcheries can be highly technical for industrial purposes or less technologically intensive, in the form of simpler structures. In Mozambique, we have the two types as there are several communal famers that produce their own fingerlings.

Industrial hatcheries are normally divided in the following sections: quarantine area, broodstock tanks, spawning tanks, corral systems, reproduction ponds, eggs and larval rearing systems, fry tanks, fingerling tanks, filter and water inlet/outlets, warehouses and services areas.

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