Cost of Starting a Fish Farm in Nigeria
To start a fish farm, you will have to invest as much money as possible depending on the size you want to start with, but it is advisable to start on a small scale before expanding as you acquire experience because catfish farming is a major investment operation that needs careful consideration before start up. You will need capital for labour, land, pond construction, fish feed machines and all other operational costs. The commonest species of fish reared on fish farms in Nigeria is the cat fish and this write up summarizes the basics of cat fish rearing. There are two divisions of catfish farming, that can be either operated separately or integrated into one process and these are the nursery fish farming and the grow out fish farming. The grow out fish farming is dependent on the nursery because a farmer cannot grow fish without a nursery which involve the inducement of the female fish to lay eggs, which are then fertilized, incubated and hatched into little fishes know