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Cultivating Fish Farms to Populate Africa’s Lake Victoria by Hebrew University


Eco-Friendly Fish Farming Techniques

 

Reintroducing carp in Uganda

 

Aquaculture Innovation Helps Increase World Food Supply

From https://www.afhu.org/ -

"A new way to grow larger fish and feed the expanding world population earns Professor Berta Levavi-Sivan a 2017 Kaye Innovation Award. 

A new way to grow larger fish and feed the expanding world population earns Professor Berta Levavi-Sivan a 2017 Kaye Innovation Award

June 27, 2017 — As the world faces a projected population increase from today’s 7.5 billion people to 9 billion people by 2050, the demand for sustainable food sources is on the rise. The answer to this looming dilemma may well reside within the booming field of aquaculture. While wild fisheries have been on the decline for the last 20 years." To keep reading... 

 

 

Israeli aquaculture helps save Lake Victoria's carp

from The Science Show with with Robyn Williams

Lake Victoria in Africa is surrounded by three countries, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The lake is a major source of fresh water and an African species of carp, which local villages have relied upon for protein. When the Nile Perch was transferred from the Nile River fifty years ago and introduced into the lake, its voracious appetite saw it responsible for three hundred species of fish going extinct. Among them, were three species of carp. Berta Levavi-Sivan began research into saving Lake Victoria's carp. The lake is the only source of Nile Perch, which is sold all over the world. It has not become a farmed fish. So some of the last carp were found and 15 years of work has led to carp aquaculture. But now the Nile Perch have eaten out the lake and their population is decreasing. 

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Hebrew University innovation means bigger fish to fry

 

While wild fisheries have been declining for the last 20 years, aquaculture has become the world’s fastest-growing food-producing sector.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH in THE JERUSALEM POST   

JUNE 27, 2017

A way to promote faster growth in fish – to serve as a major sustainable food source – has been developed by Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists and earned aquaculture expert Prof. Berta Levavi-Sivan a top award. To the article