Africa-Press – Angola. The tilapia frying center installed on the Mussangi farm, in the municipality of Negage, province of Uíge, plans to produce, from this year onwards, 31 million fry/year, with a view to increasing cacusso fish production levels in the region.
This Friday, the head of the farm, Eliseu Manuel, said that the tilapia fish farming project began to fully operate in 2023.
He reported that during the year 2023 to date, the farm produced 300 thousand fry.
He said that in this first phase the fry production project has 14 fattening tanks, four of which are already repopulated with fish.
These tanks are 150 meters long, 38 meters wide and two meters deep, with the capacity to hold 70 thousand fish each.
In 2023, the province of Uíge reached a production of 84 thousand 970 tons of cacusso fish (tilapia), compared to 80 thousand 152 in the previous year, in 359 aquaculture projects, in a universe of 3,820 tanks.
As for marketing, Eliseu Manuel said that the first sales of fingerlings and fish (tilapia) are scheduled for next June in markets in the region and later in other locations.
He also clarified that, in addition to fish production, the farm is focused on planting mango trees, guava trees, avocado trees, safu trees, pitaya trees and others.
The farm created 15 direct jobs and 73 indirect jobs.
In turn, the head of the Provincial Department of Continental Fisheries and Aquaculture in Uíge, José Kupessa, reaffirmed the provincial government’s commitment to installing a fish conservation center in the region.
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