Fisheries
Associate Professor / Reader
Fisheries
At the Fisheries department office
Appointment on Visitation important
Topic: AQUACULTURE
Description:
Fish breeding
Aquaculture unlike capture fisheries
requires deliberate human intervention in the organism productivity that
exceeds those from the natural environment. Nigeria is a protein deficient
country (FAO 2006) and the protein deficiency in the diet can be remedied
through the consumption of either protein-rich plants or animal, food stuffs.
Fish is the cheapest source of protein. Thus my research interest in
aquaculture is breeding, focusing in the production of hybrid of the clariids,
which I consider to be better candidate for aquaculture due to the following:
(a)
Tolerance to intensive culture practices
(b)
Relative ease of production
I
have both basic and advance training in fisheries with over 30 years teaching
and research experience utilized for academic and community development. I am
teaching and examining specialized courses in aquaculture, fish nutrition and
breeding technologies both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A lot of
cross breeding programmes will have to be initiated to find mating combinations
between different populations of fish which will produce superior offspring for
grow-out and better food conversion factor.
# | Certificate | School | Year |
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1. | Ph.D (Fisheries) | Department of Fisheries, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State | 2007 |
DEVELOPING PROTOCOL FOR BREEDING AND HATECHERY FRY OF CHRYSICHTHYS NIGRODIGITATUS (BAGRIDEA) SILVER CATFISH
Introduction:
A complete observation has been made of
life stages and water chemistry requirements of chrysichthys nigrodigitatus requisite precursors for the
domestification of the silver catfish in Nigeria. The protocol about to be
developed for the breeding hatching and rearing of the silver chrysichthys nigrodigitatus is a process
that consists of the use of an indoor hatchery facility. This is a novel
approach that is scaleable and sustainable.
Aim and objective
To determine the possibilities of
rearing chrysichthys nigrodigitatus
fry in a controlled in-door environment in other to develop a protocol for mass
commercial fingerlings production.
Methodology
Silver catfish broodstock were collected
from tubular receptacle on long lines in Epe Lagoon (Longitude 4o
00.01.4E and Latitude 6o 35’00 2’N) and tagged for easy
identification of ready-to-spawn pairs in the wet-lab
Expected result
The results from this research is to provide
information on the successful intensive culture of silver catfish in Nigeria and
West Africa Sub-region so as to increase the number of culturable fish species
for fish farmers, which prior to now had been the clamor among stakeholders.
OWODEINDE FATAI is a Associate Professor / Reader at the Department of Fisheries
OWODEINDE has a Ph.D in Fisheries from Department of Fisheries, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State