Facilitators-Handbook-For-Permaculture

Workshop Module 11: Aquaculture 317

Field activity : Stocking and feeding fish (Aquaculture Ex. 4)

Method   :  Participatory   field   activity

Tools : See exercise below

References : PC Book MOD 11 - Aquaculture

Objective    :  Participants    practice    fish    stocking    and feeding

Preparations

A healthy aquaculture system should contain different types of fish. However they need
to be introduced in the right order.

Tools and materials to prepare:

• The fish (see below).


• Manure.


• Leaves.


• Herbivore fish food (see below).


• Tools for feeding the fish.

Guidelines about quantity of fish to stock

• 3 fish per 1m^2 is a good for most fishponds.


• For a 100m^2 pond stock 300 fish - This is for a fishpond that has manure, leaves,
  and some additional food.

Herbivore fish feeding

With the participants, try out different types of natural feed combinations for
the fish. Ingredients can include:

• Grains: Rice, crushed corn, millet.


• Legumes: Beans, sesbania, moringa, acacia, mung beans, peanuts, soybeans,
  pigeon pea.


• Leaves and fruit: Legume trees, cassava, sweet potato, vegetables, fruit trees,
  water plants.


• Root vegetables: Cassava, taro, sweet potato, yam, potato – Must be cooked
  before feeding to fish.


• Oil seeds: Soybeans, sunflower, kapok, candle nut, coconut, peanut.

See PC Book MOD 11 – Aquaculture for more information about all these steps,

including amounts of the different materials needed.

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