Africa-Press – Angola. Municipal administrations should include fish farming in their investment programmes, to improve family income and reduce poverty, defended Friday in Lubango, the head of the fisheries and aquaculture department of the provincial department of Lubango Agriculture, José Kandungu.
The creation of fish in cages is done in ponds, in a system of continuous renewal of intensive water, which removes the metabolites and supplies oxygen.
It is one of the most intensive forms of breeding currently practiced and has become popular in many parts of the world due to its easy handling and quick return on investment.
One of the advantages of raising tilapia in cages, compared to other fish, is the ease with which they can be produced in dams, ponds, rivers and canals. In addition, the investment is low cost when compared to conventional nurseries.
In Lubango, José Maria Candungo stressed that this would be a way for the administrations to empower those producers willing to carry out the activity that are most unable to do so.
Second, José Maria Candungo, the province of Huíla has large ponds in almost all municipalities and in the specific case of Cacula, there is the Chivas pond with a capacity of about 40 to 50 cages, for four to five thousand fish each.
He highlighted that if this lagoon were included in his annual municipal investment, it would be an added value for the increase of the production and the income of the practitioners.
“Prices for acquiring fish offspring and raising them in captivity are not very high, as a fish costs around 25 to 33 kwanzas, affordable prices and it is up to the administrations to support the producers”, he said.
He referred that the province of Huíla, controls five producers who develop their activity in tanks and three of which are functional, in the municipalities of Lubango and Humpata, has an average monthly production of 800 to 1,200 kg.
14 associations with ongoing processes to legalize fishing activity are also controlled, in the municipalities of Cacula, Matala, Jamba and Cuvango of artisanal fishing, 72 groups of fishermen who carry out random fishing in the Cunene, Cuvango and Colui rivers, these do not comply to no association.
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