Mistake 1: Inadequate Housing and Ventilation The problem: Many poultry operations in West and Central Africa use poorly ventilated structures—corrugated metal sheds without adequate openings, overcrowded pens, or housing that…
The value of a catfish harvest is not locked in at the moment the fish reaches target weight — it is preserved or eroded by every handling decision between harvest…
More catfish farming enterprises fail due to inadequate financial planning than to inadequate technical knowledge. The technical information required to raise African catfish commercially is widely available — the biology,…
The catfish farm that produces 75 tonnes per year but has no pre-arranged buyers for its harvest is not a profitable business — it is an expensive problem. Fish harvested…
Off-flavor in catfish is a market access problem disguised as a production problem. A 500 kg batch of catfish that has reached target market weight, survived the production cycle with…
Harvest is the final conversion event in the catfish production cycle — the point at which months of feed investment, water quality management, health management, and growth monitoring are converted…
The value of a catfish harvest is not locked in at the moment the fish reaches target weight — it is preserved or eroded by every handling decision between harvest…
The previous article in this cluster established why routine measurement and record-keeping is the foundation of evidence-based catfish farm management. This article addresses the tools that make that record-keeping more…
Commercial catfish farming is a production business — it converts feed into fish biomass at a measurable rate, over a measurable period, producing a measurable output that sells at a…
The disease management articles preceding this one in the series describe what to do after a pathogen has established itself in the production population. This article addresses what to do…
