Private farms successfully produce breeding catfish

After a long period of research and successful artificial breeding of catfish, so far, Phuong Loan fish farm of Mr. Tran Duc Phuong's family in Village 6, Van Hoi commune, Tran Yen district, Yen Bai province, successfully produced catfish for the market.

This is a great success of Mr. Phuong's family because, currently in the North of Vietnam, there is only 1 closed Aquaculture Research Institute in Bac Ninh province that can produce this fish. Phuong's family is the first private farm in the North to succeed in producing catfish and producing this fish.

Phuong's family started raising commercial catfish from June 2011 with nearly 4,000 children. During the care process, Mr. Phuong found that in the pond with young catfish, it was identified because the water supply system for the ponds is similar to the natural environment in rivers and streams, so the catfish have reproduced.

From that fact, in 2012, Mr. Phuong's family started asking seafood engineers for artificial insemination for catfish. After the mother catfish was injected with drugs to stimulate ovulation and artificial insemination, the eggs were put into the hatchery. The next day, many eggs hatch into baby catfish. However, the hatching rate is low, only about 20-30% due to uncontrolled temperature, water temperature, light .

Since the beginning of this year, Mr. Phuong's family has continued to invest in building special-use houses for spawning fish, building water pipes, water pressure tanks, nursery tanks, cooling systems and controlling temperature of the lips. air field, water temperature, light . in order to create a natural environment for spawning and fertilization. Therefore, Phuong's family has repeatedly given catfish successful and produced tens of thousands of breeding fish to raise and sell to the market.

Catfish is a high-value catfish species. In school nutrition, catfish is a precious dish with a lot of protein, many important minerals and nearly enough vitamins . very beneficial for human health. In some cases, eating fish also helps prevent atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction. Currently in Yen Bai market, natural raising fish are sold for 500,000 to 600,000 VND / kg.