Farmers’ perception on quality of fish feed, brood stock and fingerling produced in commercial fish farms of Bangladesh

Authors

  • MD. SAZEDUR RAHMAN
  • HASSAN MAHMUD RIAD
  • MD. SAYEM MAHMUD
  • MST. KANIZ FATEMA
  • MD. SHAHJAHAN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52168/bjf.2020.32.16

Keywords:

Feed, Brood fish, Seed, Aquaculture, Fish farm

Abstract

In Bangladesh, aquaculture has expanded, diversified, intensified and technologically
advanced due to the decline in fish production from the open water natural sources. Quality seeds
are prime requirements for aquaculture production. Quality of seeds depends on the quality of
broods used for spawning. Breeding performance depends on the quality of feeds and feeding
management during brood stock rearing. The present study focused on the evaluation of quality
of feed used in the fish farms, the performance of brood stock and fingerlings of selected carp,
catfish and perch farmed in Bangladesh through a survey. On the basis of top fish production
districts, we divided the whole country into four hubs, such as Mymensingh, Jashore, Cumilla
and Rajshahi. Data were collected from 300 individual respondents of commercial fish farms, 75
from each hub. It has been found that most of the farm owners (91%) used commercial feed
instead of homemade feed, though a considerable number of respondents replied that quality of
homemade feed was better than commercial feed. Although most of the farm owners collect fry
from private/own hatcheries (69%), a considerable number of grow out farms owners replied that
the fry of government hatcheries/brood bank, river and BFRI were better than private hatcheries
in terms of growth performance, disease resistance and survivability. Therefore, for sustainable
aquaculture, farm owners should be careful for the selection of feed, brood and fingerling.

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Published

2020-07-04