Successful breeding of Goose fish

The Department of Aquaculture Technology - Department of Fisheries at Can Tho University has just experimented with successful breeding of Grouper - a species of catfish with scientific name is Plotosus Canius Hamilton.

Fertilization for Tuna fish.
(Photo: An Giang Department of Agriculture and Rural Development)

This is a fish species capable of living on brackish water rivers and freshwater areas with poisonous thorns but is a specialty fish by delicious fish meat and high nutritional value.

Average 2-year-old fish weighs from 2 to 3 kg / head. Currently, the market price is from 40,000 to 50,000 VND / kg. Therefore, Ngat fish is considered a new farming object very promising in the future.

From broodstock broodstock are carefully selected (average from 1 to 1.5 kg) and then to the mother to lay eggs, fertilize and hatch in artificial conditions. After 3 weeks of being reared in a suitable environment, Tilapia larvae grow quite fast, with an average length of 35.5mm.

This initial success of the Department of Fisheries at Can Tho University has opened up great prospects for aquaculture in the Mekong Delta provinces, especially in the context of declining natural fish resources. due to overfishing.