Tilapia hatchery
operation
Dr Waleed El Hawarry
Definitions
•
A hatchery is a facility for breeding fish to produce fry
and fingerlings for grow-out.
•
Fry are the very young tilapia soon after hatching.
•
Fingerlings are juveniles 1–3 g in weight that have
completed a nursery phase of culture and are ready to
be stocked into grow-out ponds.
•
Grow-out is stocking tilapia fingerlings into ponds and
feeding them until they are big enough to be eaten or
sold
22/10/2008 Dr Waleed El-Hawarry
Male papilla
Female papilla with
oviduct
anus
anus
Visual Selection of the Genital Papilla
1. Early in one
afternoon, the dominant
male begins to clean
the spawning area that
he guards.
2. The male displays
his reflective side to
females and induces
their final ovary
maturation.
• 3. A female with
mature follicles
enters the dominant
male's spawning
area and cleans the
area with him.
• 4. The male and the
female
communicate
through body
vibration while
discharging gamete
5. The female
picks up eggs
and sperm strings
and fertilization
occurs in her
month.
Females incubate eggs
Tilapia guarding frys
1. ponds
2. cages (hapas)
3. tanks
Tilapia can be spawned in:
Hapa
2. 40 days after
stocking brood fish
1. 18 days after
stocking brood fish
Fry can be harvested:
1. Partial harvested
2. Completely harvested
Fry can be:
Incubating tilapia eggs
Yolk-sac tilapia fry
Eggs can be removed from females:
Tilapia Spawning ponds
Collecting Tilapia frys
Collected Tilapia frys
Collected Tilapia frys
Nile tilapia nests
Collecting Tilapia frys
Collecting Tilapia frys
Collecting Tilapia frys
Tilapia Spawning hapas
Tilapia Spawning hapas
Collecting Tilapia eggs
and frys
Collecting Tilapia eggs
and frys
Checking female for
eggs
Female holding eggs
Egg incubators
Tilapia sac fry
incubation
Tray holding sac fry
Grading of fry
Oversized Tilapia seeds
Yolk sac fry
Sex reversal of fry
Sex reversal of fry
Indoor tanks
For sex reversal of fry
Sex reversed fry
Harvested mixed sex
Nile tilapia
Harvested mixed sex
Nile tilapia
ponds protected from
bird predation
ponds protected from
bird predation
Tilapia hatchery operation.pdf

Tilapia hatchery operation.pdf