Aquaculture

Fish grown in drainable earthen ponds, fed by plankton that the farm's own manure grows: a crop of tilapia or carp in about six months. Farmed fish are now more than half of the world's aquatic animal food.

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Earthen fish ponds

t2-fishpond GuideBuild

Fish ponds: build, fertilise and harvest an earthen pond

Grow a crop of fish in a fenced, drainable earthen pond that holds its water, keeps the dawn oxygen above the species' minimum, and is drained, harvested and dried each cycle.

Needs first: Irrigation and water control, Livestock, Forage, trap, fish

Guide Fish farming in ponds
Build Drainable fish pond, 400 m²
Read FAO agricultural documents

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Every guide, build, reference sheet and book reached from the steps above.

Field guides

Level 2

Fish farming in ponds

A drainable earthen pond, manured from the farm's animals, grows fish without bought feed: site, species, water, stocking, feeding, daily care and harvest.

Builds

Harvesting a rearing pond at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery, South Dakota: the pond is drained slowly and the fish gathered with a seine net.

Level 2

Drainable fish pond, 400 m²

A 20 × 20 m earthen pond with rammed dikes, a screened inlet and a wooden monk: filled and drained by gravity, manured from the farm, and harvested every six months.

Books and archives

FAO agricultural documents Archive · ~10 GB

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