La pisciculture de Tilapia nilotica (= Sarotherodon niloticus) dans les eaux continentales de Côte d'Ivoire

• Main Author: Vincke, P.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux 1985-01-01
• Series: Tropicultura
• Online Access: http://www.tropicultura.org/text/v3n3/93.pdf

The fishculture of Tilapia niloiica (Sarotherodon niloticus) in freshwater of Ivory Coast. In Ivory Coast, the freshwater fishculture in rural areas is mainly on a small scale. This type of breeding in ponds (2 to 4 ares) yields on an average 3 metric tons of fish/ha/year and represents only an activity with self-consumption of products. The yield in intensive pond fishculture Tilapia nilotica is on an average 6 to 7 metric tons/ha/year but yields bigger than 10 metric tons/ha/year are not uncommon. The intensive fishculture in floating cages, requiring a minor investment but a more improved formation than in fischculture, yields on an average about 30 to 40 kg/m3/year. However the effective development of this activity rests on the resolution of problems like the sufficient fry production, the feeding and the commercialization.