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We ran our third Introduction to Tilapia Seed Production training course in Thailand.    Participants came from Austria, Portugal, South Africa and the Philippines and included three farmers and two Technical Managers fromBiomin of Austria. It was a real pleasure to train them all.

We were very pleased to supply a lot of equipment for the new hatchery which is being set up in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. The hatchery will be turning out 4 million sex reversed fry per month very soon.

FarmAqua consultants Angus MacNiven & Teerapon Chunjinda spent a busy few weeks at the Malawi National Aquaculture Center at Domasi installing a recirculating tilapia egg and fry nursery unit. This was under a USAID funded project, COMPASS II managed by Development Alternatives Inc. of Washington.

Three Malawi government fisheries officers and one private sector hatchery operator attended an intensive introduction to advanced tilapia seed production in Thailand. The course was well received and participants returned home with fortified with the knowledge required to begin mass production of tilapia. Training focused on

Here is a link to a video by the UK Department for International Development, Research Into Use Programme which shows how the fish hatchery equipment we supplied last year to USAID Compass II project fits within a wider strategy for aquaculture development in Malawi. Includes an interview with one of our training graduates, John Kandapo,

From penguins to pelicans and cormorants to kingfishers they all love to eat fish. We don’t want to kill them of course, just exclude them from the pond, cage or raceway. We have high density polyethylene bird netting with 20cm stretched mesh in a fetching red/burgundy twine 380D/12 which we currently supply to the largest