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Feed the Future Aquaculture

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Newsletter May, 2013 Volume-1, Issue-1

Director General Department of Fisheries, Bangladesh

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Matsya Bhaban, Ramna, Dhaka-1000 Tel: 9562861 Fax: 9568393 E-mail: [email protected]

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Our country is blessed with a huge network of rivers. These rivers have endowed us with potential aquatic resources. Due to favorable nature, fisheries sector is playing a vital role on the life and livelihood of the people of this country. According to the Economic Study 2012, this sector has contributed 4.39% in the national GDP and approximately one fourth (22.76%) in the agriculture GDP. About 60% of our total animal protein comes from fish. Considered as the second largest, 2.45% of total national export comes from this sector. 11% of total population of the country (around 16.4 million) is directly or indirectly dependent on the sector for their livelihood. Fisheries sector has generated 0.6 million new jobs in previous few years.

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Along with the government initiatives, a number of nongovernment organizations are also working for the sustainable development of the sector. I assume that USAID funded Feed the future Aquaculture project will play a complimentary role to achieve the desired development benchmarks of the fisheries sector.

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I am delighted to know that a newsletter is being published to disseminate the results of the field based initiatives implemented by this project. I firmly believe that regular publication of this newsletter will help to enhance the technical knowledge and management skills of the sector related stakeholders.

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Country Director

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WorldFish – Bangladesh

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As the new Country Director for WorldFish, when I go out and visit individual households and discuss the technologies WorldFish developed and delivered that transformed their formerly underutilized ponds into highly productive and profitable enterprises, I become so excited. Aquaculture is a highly profitable business nowadays that empowers husbands and wives to work more closely together. Feed the FutureAquaculture is WorldFish’s biggest project in Bangladesh but in many ways building from decades of research to develop these simple, affordable technologies that are being adopted by a huge percent of the households where FtF works. Part of the process does indeed involve the people-to-people approach. The staff of FtF are an impressive team with our field staff highly motivated, making adoption rates quite impressive. If you want to be excited, give me a call and I’ll take you to visit these households!

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Dr. Craig A Meisner

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Chief of Party

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Feed the Future Aquaculture

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This is the first newsletter of Feed the Future Aquaculture. We look forward to produce many more for regular communication with our partners in development. We hope to report many successes, but we will also report on ongoing activities as well as future plans. The greatest success of the newsletter will be that we will distribute ideas that will support and inspire other development efforts. We would also welcome any offers for cooperation. The cooperation of partners will be very important to achieve future progress.

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Feed the Future Aquaculture Project in Bangladesh

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FFtF Aquaculture project is a 5-year transformative USAID investment in aquaculture focused on 20 southern districts in Barisal, Khulna and Dhaka divisions of Bangladesh. It aims to improve fish and shrimp seed quality, household income and nutritional status and creating rural employment opportunities of this region-one of the poorest and most disaster prone area of the country. A total of 1.33 million households will be benefited through producing an additional volume of 174,037 metric tons of shrimp & fish and 19,560 metric tons of vegetable by adopting improved aquaculture and vegetable production system (ponddike and homestead systems) respectively as a result of the project intervention.

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These would eventually be translated into an additional sales volume of US$ 170 million to their current sales. A total of 50,000 new job opportunities will also be created as a result of these initiatives. The components of the project are:

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1. Development and dissemination of improved fish and shrimp seed

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This component will develop and is being derived improved quality and/or genetically improved quality of tilapia, carp (rohu, mrigel and catla), prawn and shrimp to farmers in Khulna, Barisal and Dhaka divisions, providing the basis for 12-27% increase in fish yield in the southern delta, benefiting around 1,148,243 farm households. Improved aquatic farming systems are expected to provide an additional 174,037 metric tones of fish by the end of 2016. Government brood centers and private hatchery operators are being assisted to source quality brood stock, establish management systems to maintain and develop seed quality, and to accelerate distribution of improved quality of fish, shrimp and prawn to farmers.

2. Household aquaculture for income and nutrition

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Impacts on household income & nutrition through trainings on improved nutrition, incomes with aquaculture and horticulture to poor and vulnerable households will be extended to 181,500 households through this component. Interventions with implementing partners will be primarily focused on introducing WorldFish aquaculture technologies into existing livelihood initiatives through training, demonstrations and communication programs. Improved nutrition, as indicated by number of meals containing fish per month, will double. Production of small indigenous fish species is also being promoted.

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3. Commercial aquaculture

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This component will stimulate investments, employment and income in aquaculture sector of Bangladesh. The project provide technical support to around 60,000 shrimp and prawn farmers, 20,000 carp farmers and 500 cage fish farmers and assist them adopting high value commercial fish and shrimp culture practices and will identify new options for brackish water aquaculture that will reduce pressure on natural sources and will increase income.

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4. Policy reform and institutional capacity

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This component will focus on assisting government in implementation of existing policy and regulatory measures in the Hatchery and Feed Acts. It will also facilitate recommendation and adoption of new policies. Institutional capacity building will also be supported. This will include assistance in implementing the Aquaculture and Fisheries MoU signed between Bangladesh and India on cooperation in fish seed improvement and germplasm conservation and management. The project is working to improve the capacity of private sector associations and business, and is assisting both public and private bodies to ensure their effective participation in the project.

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Feed the Future Aquaculture project reach till now

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Fish Seed and Skill Development

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The project has so far collected 235,000 no. of (estimated) Carp seed from Halda River and stocked 175,000 fish in government farms (DOF) at Koutchandpur and 60,000 (estimated) in two private hatcheries to establish a fish Brood Bank. The project supported private hatcheries have produced 4,385 kg of carp spawn which are being supplied to both project supported and indirect beneficiary carp nurseries. About 200 million white spot virus-free, quality PCR screened post larvae shrimp were distributed to farmers. Trainings were provided to hatcheries and nurseries. They were also facilitated with input supports to improve management practice and technology. Two hundred and sixty cages for cage-fish culture were distributed and installed among 260 poor families. 20,062 shrimp and 25,057 fish farmers people were trained.

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Knowledge Dissemination

Achievements till December 2012

A total of 173,000 leaflets, 700 flip charts and 15,500 stickers with information related to fish seed quality and shrimp & fish culture technologies were developed and disseminated among the nurseries, traders and farmers covering both direct and indirect beneficiaries. Total 0.3 million leaflets with technical and improved production management information were printed and distributed through hatcheries, nursery linked small traders to the project and non-project farmers who purchase quality Carp seeds from project supported sources. Trainings were provided to 197 nursery owners, demonstration farmers, project and PNGO staff.

38 carp hatcheries produced 10,272 kg quality spawn using quality brood, improved technology and management

45,689 people were trained (household, commercial, hatchery and nursery) on improved aquaculture practice

US$18.12 million increased through shrimp sales

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850,000 households and 15,844 hectares of pond reached with quality seed

FtF AQ quality fish seed get 10–15% price premium over existing seeds

78,400 hectares of pond using improved technology and management practices

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Working Together

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A Memorandum of Understanding was signed with Bangladesh Shrimp and Fish Foundation (BSFF) to improve applications of Good Aquaculture Practices (GAqP) and Codes of Conduct (CoC). A Memorandum of Agreement was signed with Bangladesh Fisheries Research Forum (BFRF) to help develop genetic quality of Rohu and Mola. Two large trials were established to assess growth performance of national tilapia strains along with another trial for assessing the growth performance of various carps.

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Milt Bank Can Double Fish Hatchery Production

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WorldFish scientists working with private hatcheries and the Department of Fisheries have successfully developed technology that allows the preservation of fresh carp milt for periods of up to 3-4 days. This is done by cooling and oxygenating the milt, use of extenders and refrigeration at temperatures of 4-8C degrees. Preserved milt from three males once preserved and extended, can be used to fertilize the eggs of up to 15-20 females. Hatching rates of 95% have been recorded in private hatcheries using milt preserved in this way. Preserved milt can be transferred across the country, and FtF Acuaculture has used milt preserved in Jessore to fertilize eggs in hatcheries in Barisal.

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Transportation of adult brood fish is expensive and warm tropical temperatures can cause mortalities during transportation. Keeping the male and female fish in the same hatchery is the prime root of inbreeding, resulting low quality fry. The preservation and distribution of milt to hatcheries addresses all these problems. Similar to artificial insemination in livestock, use of milt from improved carp lines has the potential to rapidly improve the fish “herds” and significantly reduce inbreeding. It also allows hatchery owners to reduce the numbers of males they maintain in brood ponds, thereby reducing hatchery operating costs.

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Nazrul Islam, owner of 'Sromo-Projukti Matsya Utpadon Kendra' hatchery at Barisal, has collected 600 ml of preserved milt from the project supported milt bank. This amount of milt is sufficient to fertilize up to 40 kg of collected eggs. He said “hatchling rate of the preserved milt was 95%. Milt bank has spared my cost of raising male fish in my hatchery”.

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Following the intervention, 'Ma Fatima Hatchery' of Jessore has increased its production capacity from 150 kg/batch to 200 kg Feed the Future Aquaculture

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spawn (100 million fry) per 7-day cycle. The owner of the hatchery, Firoz Khan said, “30 years since the inception of hatchery business in the region has passed, it is Feed the Future Aquaculture Project who has provided us sustainable as well as profitable technologies. It is anticipated that by adopting this milt bank system, it would be possible to achieve 100% improved quality fish seed within 5 years while reducing overall hatchery operation costs. This intervention has the potential to shift current hatchery management practices from raising both male and female brood fish to produce and maintain only female brood stocks, thus greatly improving profitability.

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Simple Technology Improved Hatchery Production Scenario

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Jessore district is one of the most important sources of fish seed in the country. Most of the private hatcheries located here use underground water in their brood and nursery ponds and incubation jars. This water carries very little oxygen and high levels of carbon dioxide. This results in very low survival rates for hatchlings from even the best quality eggs, and causes economic losses, but hatchery owners were unaware of this critical problem.

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Specialists from the Feed the Future Aquaculture project identified the problem of poor water quality as a crucial constraint while assessing baseline conditions in fish hatcheries. The project supported hatchery owners to install aeration towers to mitigate this problem. The towers are made of locally available materials worth only 300 US Dollar, which is easily affordable by hatchery owners. The technique is simple – letting the water flow through 4 to 6 layers of perforated galvanized metal sheets before delivery to incubation jars and nursing tanks. This simple process increases the oxygen level from 3 to 8 mg per liter and increases the hatching rates by up to 95 percent. Firoz Khan, President of Jessore Fish Hatchery Owners Association, has been involved in the process of popularizing the technology from the beginning of the project. “We have been living with the problem for more than 30 years without knowing such a simple solution exists! This technology has radically changed our fish seed production and profitability scenario” he said. Fish hatchery owners who adopted the technology now produce more than two times more fish seed than before the project intervention.

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Contact Details: Chief of Party: Hendrik Jan Keus, Deputy Chief of Party: Dr. Manjurul Karim WorldFish – South Asia and Bangladesh, House 22B, Road 7, Block-F, Banani, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh Tel: +880 2 881 3250, +880 2 881 4624, Fax: +880 2 881 1151, Email: [email protected] USAID Disclaimer: “This Newsletter is made through support provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents and opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the US Agency for International Development or the United States Government.” Photo Credits: Francois Rajts, Zakir Hossain Design & Print: Pathway; www.pathway.com.bd