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Aquaculture is the farming of
aquatic (freshwater and marine) organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans
and plants in a controlled or selected aquatic environments, with some form of
interventions such as regular stocking, feeding and protection from predators in
the rearing process to enhance production.
Farming also implies individual or corporate ownership of the cultivated stock.
Aquatic organisms refers to all faunal and floral life forms that exist in
water, but excluding mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, except for those
amphibians and reptiles declared to be aquaculture species as per Animal
Improvement Act.
Articles
Production and Production Systems
Development
of small-scale Aquaculture Farming Systems: Western Cape.
The
1998 Production and Status of Aquaculture in
South Africa
.
Fish Breeding
Artificial
breeding at Jonkershoek
Importance
of Carp Genetic Resources
Artificial
propagation of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus): Differences between
reproduction effects after stimulation of ovulation with Carp pituitary
homogenate or GnRH-a and dopaminergic inhibitor
Fish Diseases and Health
Koi
husbandry, health assessment and health maintenance: Koi health advisor
programme of the AKCA
Impact
of water quality on the abundance of parasites from Oreochromis mossambicus at
the Phalaborwa Industral Complex (PIC) and Barrage: preliminary results
Health
of aquatic animals
Books
Production and Production
Systems
Handbook
on the artificial reproduction and pond rearing of the African Sharptooth
Catfish Clarias gariepinus, in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The
Southern African Marine Aquarium Fish Breeder’s Handbook
Policies
National Aquaculture Policy
The D:AAP is in the process of developing the NAP by incorporating both DoA
(Freshwater) and DEAT:MCM (Marine) policies with the following objectives:
To facilitate the development of a united and prosperous aquaculture sector by
unifying and simplifying aquaculture legislation and regulations, as well as
ensuring sustainable and equitable use of aquatic resources.
To promote the responsible and sustainable development of globally competitive
aquaculture sector in
South Africa
by identifying current constraints and by proposing action aimed at creating an
enabling environment for effectively addressing those constraints
Projects
Limpopo
Basin
Project
A Challenge Program on Water
and Food of the
WorldFish
Center
on research priorities in the Aquatic Ecosystems and Fisheries initiated a
project to be done on the
Limpopo
Basin
. This is a joint project between
South Africa
,
Botswana
,
Mozambique
and
Zimbabwe
. Project implementation was discussed at the
University
of
Limpopo
.
Provincial
Aquaculture Programme.
Participatory development of
provincial aquaculture programme for improving rural food security and
livelihoods alternatives A 5 year programme funded by DoA and WRC to be
implemented by
Rhodes
University
. Programme was launched at
Rhodes
University
on 28th Nov 2005. First step of the programme is to develop
strategic plans for provinces as follows:
Free State
– 26 Jan 2006
Limpopo – 12 & 13 Jan 2006
KZN – 1st Feb 2006
NW – 7 Feb 2006
Mpumalanga
– 9 Feb 2006
Report on the developed provincial strategic plans will be done on the 21st
Feb 2006.
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