The University of Arizona and Central Luzon State University have collaborated for many years to develop low cost feeds, tilapia-shrimp polyculture and to co-host the Sixth International Symposium on Tilapia Aquculture in the Philippines. The technologies developed will benefit tilapia farmers around the world as the investigators and students involved with the project work with Arizona and Filipino farmers and test diets at commercial producers. The first phase of the project was to purchase a pellet mill to improve the quality of test feeds made at the Freshwater Aquaculture Center at CLSU, the premier aquaculture research facility in the Philippines. The second part of the study is to test diets incorporating various substitutes for fish meal in hopes of finding cost effective diets.
Integreated aquaculture Best Management Practices - Power Point File
2002 visit photos
Private hatchery near CLSU, March 1998
Handtruck and ponds at hatchery
Breeding hapas in pond at hatchery
Fish dispersal days at BFAR
BFAR tanks used for the Genetically Improved
Farmed Tilapia Project
Broodstock used in the GIFT program
Cryopreservation of milt at BFAR
Cold storage tanks for tilapia milt
Philippines map with GMT hatcheries marked
GIFT Foundation International, pond site plan
Hatching buckets at the GIFT labs
Pond receiving experimental diet containing
25% yeast
Sampling fish from yeast diet pond
Weighing tilapia from yeast diet pond
Hapa cages receiving yeast, compost and control
diets
Weighing tilapia fed diet containing 25% compost
Control pond receiving standard CRSP fertilization
regime
Private tilapia hatchery, R.T. Sayco Integrated
Farm
Discussions at Sayco Farm
Work boats and cages at Patabangan Reservoir
Array of cages at Patabangan Reservoir, with
McNamara and Circa
Array of cages at Patabangan Reservoir
Pelleted feed used at cage farms
Second brand of pelleted feed used at cage farms
Overhead view of cage farms in Patabangan
Drying feed at CLSU
Bagging feed at CLSU
Pouring mixed ingredients into pellet mill
View of California Pellet Mill
Labels on Pellet Mill in the CLSU feeds lab
California Pellet Mill in the CLSU feeds lab
Front view of California Pellet Mill in the
CLSU feeds lab
Tony Circa working on pellet mill
Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia Breeding
Center
Looking across at BFAR facilities next to GIFT
Center
Fitzsimmons at CLSU Freshwater Aquaculture Facility
Fitzsimmons and McNamara at CLSU Freshwater
Aquaculture Facility
Y-Y male hatchery complex at BFAR facility in
Los Banos, on Laguna Bay
Video of tilapia farm in Negros
Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture CRSP Home page
Arizona Aquaculture Home Page
American Tilapia
Association Home Page
World Tilapia markets in 2000 and beyond.
