Design Your First Backyard Aquaponic Fish Farm

Fish is a wonderful creature that has many uses. And you know what the best part is? You can easily raise fish in your backyard. Do you already have a backyard garden? If you answered yes, all you’ll need now is to design a backyard fish farm, and start raising fish. You can start with a simple design that doesn’t require many inputs, and gradually expand it as you get more comfortable with it. You can start a fish farm at any scale; it can be for your own personal consumption, or you can raise fish commercially for profit. PS: if you choose to raise fish for commercial profits, you should consider to use fish feed machine for making fish feed pellets so as to lower feeding cost.

Modern Project on Establishment of Fish Feed Production Plant

Fish Feed Plant Background & Necessity

Along with the development of aquaculture, aquafeed industry has also made a quite fast progress, especially in virtue of continue advancement of breeding technology, the culturing mode has turned into intensive cultivation from extensive fish farming, which provides vast space for fish feed production. In line with the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) report, the per capita fish consumption of human beings has exceeded beef consumption while farmed fish has surpassed wild caught. It is well known that fish feed plays a leading role in global aquaculture and fish farming field, making sure safe, abundant and affordable fish proteins, but meanwhile, the cost of aquatic feed is so high that affecting sustainable development of aquaculture industry. Therefore, it is necessary, economic and practical for fish farmers or feed plants to establish their own fish feed production line rather than buying or importing feed from elsewhere.

Guidance of Tilapia Fish Farming

Introduction to Tilapia Fish Farming

Commercial Tilapia fish farming is becoming popular day by day as demand growing for this fish in Asia. Basically, Tilapia is the second most farmed fish in world. In countries like China, Egypt, Philippines, Brazil, Thailand and Bangladesh Tilapia fish contributed substantially to the Food Security. The world aquaculture production of Tilapia fish is 4.2 million tonnes with an estimated value of around 3 to $ 3.5 billion. When it comes to potential of Tilapia fish farming, generally, low-laying areas with water stagnation are suitable for agricultural activities. Tilapia fish is among the easiest and most profitable fish to farm due to their omnivorous diet, mode of reproduction. Tilapia fish farming in tanks or channels are considered safe for the environment, since their waste and disease is contained and not spread to the wild. 

Aquaculture May be the Answer of Overfished Wild Fish Stocks

Overfishing has reduced the wild fish stocks around the world to a critical level. Overfishing, global warming, pollution, political and economic disturbances, and destruction of natural habitat are some of the major reasons why the world’s wild fish population has decreased.