Contents
Part I: Fish farming: basic principles 6
1 Introduction 7
2 Fish farming practices 9
2.1 Methods of fish farming 9
2.2 Pond culture 11
3 Fish farming ponds 13
3.1 Different pond types 13
3.2 Guidelines for pond design and construction 16
3.3 Sticks in the mud: periphyton-based fish farming 28
4 Maintenance and monitoring 35
Part II: Planning a fish farm 40
5 Introduction 41
6 Selecting the site and type of fish farm 43
7 Selecting the fish species 48
7.1 Most widely cultured species 51
8 Fish nutrition, health and reproduction 67
8.1 Fish Nutrition 67
8.2 Fish Health 69
8.3 Fish Reproduction 71
9 Harvesting and post-harvesting 73
9.1 Harvesting the fish 73
9.2 Post-harvesting 77
Appendix 1: Overview of widely cultured fish species and
their food preferences 79
Appendix 2: Characteristics of liming materials 80
Further reading 81
Useful addresses 8