Hazards and risks in fish farming:
1. Fish is extremely sensitive to handle and also a small mistake can lead to abrupt expansion of your fish or perhaps death which might cause significant revenue loss.
2. Setting up fish farm requires more careful preparation and much funds input. A comparatively modest fish farm may require up to N500,000 to set up, while larger ones requires millions of naira.
3. On account of the price of manufacturing, fish generated in the plantation is priced higher than people captured from the ponds and rivers by sailors. Consequently, if there are great amount of fisherman’s fish on the current market, you might find it hard to market as folks would prefer the more affordable ones.
4. There’s not any byproduct in fishery unlike poultry in which even the fall may be harvested and sold to other farmers and also make more profit.
Kinds of Fish You Can Farm
Haven seen the advantages in addition to the dangers involved with fish farming, let us now proceed to choose which specie of fish that we wish to farm. Following are a few of the hottest fish species which is acceptable for Aquaculture.
1. 1 thing great about catfish is the fact that it’s among the simplest fish species to nurture. Thus, people naturally flow into the management of bass specie they discovered to be the simplest to cultivate.
2. Tilapia — Secondly hottest fish in Nigeria’s aquaculture business, Tilapia is a fish species which resides in new shallow water. Tilapia is quite easy to nurture and quite well known in Nigerian marketplace, it reproduces quite quickly and develops fast also.
3. This is undoubtedly the most popular fish in Nigerian marketplace but so sad it is not farmed. All of Mackerel Fish have been “wild caught” however some farmer in Nigeria are thinking about the prospect of producing artificial salty water which is going to be like sea water in which mackerel can only endure. Can this deep azure sea fish specie be cultivated lovingly?
