EVALUATING SUITABLE

SITE FOR FISH PENS AND

FISH CAGES
BY: ALEX C. BAJAN
EVALUATING SUITABLE SITE?

• The whole future success of your fish production

depends on the selection of a good site.
• Grow
• Develop
• Succeed
FISH PENS

• An artificial enclosure constructed within a body of

water for culturing fish and fishery aquatic resources
made up of poles closely arranged in an enclosure of
wooden materials, screens or nylons netting to
prevent escape of the fish.
FISH CAGES

• An enclosure which is either stationary floating made

up of net or screen sewn or fastened together and
installed in the water with opening at the surface or
covered and held in a place by wooden bamboo post or
various types of anchors and floats.
LETS EVALUATE:

• Water Current Speed

• Natural food
• Water Transparency
WATER CURRENT SPEED

• Configured for water column profiling and wave

measurement.
• WATER CURRENT METER is used to measure the
true magnitude and direction of horizontal current
motion in any fresh or salt water in it can be deployed
up to 6000 meters deep.
NATURAL FOOD:
GENERAL INFORMATION

• The PHYTOPLANKTON refers to the plant

components and
• ZOOPLANKTON refers to the animal components
which are “passively drifting” along with the water
movements.
PHYTOPLANKTON
ZOOPLANKTON
BIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE

• PHYTOPLANKTON, small in size but contribute an

enormous quantity and serve as tge basic food in the
sea for various consumers like zooplankton and fishes.
POTENTIAL

• Provide nutrient via accidental or active ingestion by

the larvae.
• Detrify the water medium by assimilating neutralizing
inhibitory materials.
• Improve the nutritional value of secondary food
organism like zooplankton.
• Secrete into the medium metabolic products which
facilitate larval growth and or development.
SAMPLING

• Phytoplanktons maybe collected by towing special

netting materials (180 meshes/sq. inch) through the
water (plankton net) a receiving container (usually vial)
is attached to one end of the net. This serve as the
collector.
TWO TYPES OF PLANKTON NET:

• Quantitative
• Qualitative
CHARACTERISTIC OF MUERGAZE NET
• Meshes never loose
• Water can easily pass through
MEASURING TRANSPARENCY USING THE SECCHI
DISC

1. Slowly lower the Secchi Disc into the water

2. Stop when it disappears from sight
3. Note: at which point the line breaks the water surface.
Mark this point A.
1. After noting at which point along the line the disc
just disappears, lower it a little and then raise until it
appears. Mark this point B.
2. Measure the transparency of the water as equal to
the distance from the top of the disk to the point C
and count the knots along the line. This value is the
Secchi disc transparency (in em).
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